Asian elephant speaks Korean Kaushik

Asian elephant speaks Korean

Kaushik

Researchers from the University of Vienna Villa Asian named Kaushik can emulate human conversations and pronunciation of words in Korean speakers can understand this language.

It was not clear reasons why the elephant begins to imitate human speech, but a global cognitive neighborhoods Angela Stwaijer and Fitch Ticomesh indicated in a paper published in the journal Current Biology that it probably has to do with the expertise gained was small.

Kaushik was the only elephant who lives at the zoo Afrland in South Korea for nearly five years in his youth and was not accompanied by only humans during that important period of development processes and forming relationships.

And said Stwaijer "imagine that Kaushik began adjusting pronunciation with his entourage of people to enhance their association with social, something also seen in other races to learn the vote in very special cases even among races."

There were reports of elephants mimic the voice of truck engines and Phil Male live at the zoo in Kazakhstan utter words in Russian and Alqazakhih but the scientists did not study this case.

Kaushik issued headlines a few years ago after it attracted tourists extraordinary abilities but now researchers conducted tests where citizens asked Koreyen southerners identify what they hear when you listen to the audio recordings of the elephant.

The researchers found that puts Khrthomh in his mouth to help shape the sounds uttered five words in Korean, a (welcome) and (sit) and (not) and (Rest) and (good).

But researchers found no evidence that Kaushik understood meanings of the words they utter.