An elephant in a South Korean zoo (SEOUL, South Korea) is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary. An international team of scientists confirmed Friday what the Everland Zoo has been saying for years: Their 5.5-ton tusker Koshik has an unusual and possibly unprecedented talent. The 22-year-old Asian elephant
can reproduce five Korean words by tucking his trunk inside his mouth
to modulate sound, the scientists said in a joint paper published online
in Current Biology. They said he may have started imitating human
speech because he was lonely.
Koshik can reproduce "annyeong" (hello), "anja" (sit down), "aniya" (no), "nuwo" (lie down) and "joa" (good), the paper says.Read more
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