An Asian elephant has learned to mimic five words in Korean, creating a humanlike tone by sticking its trunk into its mouth.
TRUNK TRICK An Asian elephant named Koshik in a South Korean zoo has managed to mimic the sounds of human words, though there is no evidence he uses the sounds with any grasp of what they mean.
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