Voice of America: Researchers Verify Elephant Mimics Human Speech

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Researchers Verify Elephant Mimics Human Speech Nov 1st 2012, 17:04 A scientific investigation has concluded one elephant has learned to speak at least six words of Korean. He is Koshik, a 22-year-old resident of South Korea's largest theme park in Yongin, who can repeat with startling clarity - and matching both pitch and timbre patterns - what his trainer says, including "annhyeong," the Korean word for "hello" and "joah" - meaning "good." "We found that Koshik's imitations were very similar in the ... Media files: 6219E5DC-B4A0-425A-8201-9B510761E013_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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