Recently I posted that a Whale speaks .
Now we find an Elephant speaking the Korean Language.
This has been reported by Space.com and National Geographic.
“In a grainy video shot in a cavernous room at South Korea‘s Everland Zoo, anAsian elephant stands at attention, his trunk in his mouth.
“Choah,” he tells the camera. “Choah, annyong. Anja.” In English: “good,” “good,” “hello,” and “sit down.
Six years ago, this video clip, sent by the flummoxed staff of the Everland Zoo, hit the inbox of elephant-communication researcher Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices. The footage was the first look scientists would have of Koshik, the Korean-speaking elephant.
“This is amazing,” Poole, a Conservation Trust grantee for the National Geographic Society, had written at the time. (National Geographic News is part of the Society.)
“I can’t see any chance that it is being faked, and it is certainly a human voice that is being imitated.” She passed the clip to colleagues. Somebody needed to check this out—could this possibly be genuine?
Fast-forward six years, and confirmation has finally arrived in a new study led by one of Poole’s former colleagues, Angela Stoeger of the University of Vienna. Koshik, Stoeger said, is definitely for real.
Elephant that can speak Korean
An Elephant With an Ear for Language
To reach this conclusion, Stoeger and her team first had to verify that Koshik’s sounds were words at all. According to the elephant’s trainers, he had a six-word vocabulary, including annyong (“hello”), aniya (“no”), anja (“sit down”), and choah (“good”)
Related;
Whale mimicking Human Voice.
We ,in our self importance think that the animals can not speak and that we are the only species that can think and speak, thi is coming apart slowly.
Though may not be related to this post, I would like to record that the ‘Vanaras'( we have understood it as Monkeys) mentioned in the Ramayana of the Hindu Epics is a fiction of imagination and that Monkeys can not speak, let alone being intelligent.
Anjaneya is reported to be one of high Intelligence, Wisdom and a very able, persuasive communicator.
Vanaras are not Monkeys, they are the one of the missing links inthe Evolutionary Chain between Ape and Man.
I shall be posting in detail on this.
I saw that on TV yesterday. The elephant can repeat Korean words which are only simple sounds to pepople who can’t speak this language. I was not surprised because elephants are very clever and can be trained very effectively. I remember seeing them drawing in Thailand. It was very impressive. They had learned the gestures by heart to draw a figurative painting.
But this corean elephant made me sad because he will be analysed and scrutinised instead of living in peace.
I agree with what you say on the elephant under scrutiny.
Did you read my post on the Whale speaking?It is quite astonishing.
While on this, I saw your post on how Teachers are being viewed in India.
It gives me an insight from another culture.Nice one.
I presume you know French well.
Will you do me a favor by reading my posts in French and let me know your feed back?
I have had the English Posts of mine translated by Skycode software.
Regards,
Ah I haven’t noticed your French posts, I’m going to read them. I’ll tell you what I think.
I used to write my posts in French too but it took me too much time. So I only write in English now.
Bye!
Thank you