Thursday, November 1, 2012

Voice of America: Researchers Verify Elephant Mimics Human Speech

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
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 ...

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