Talking Elephant, Korean

I swiped clip this from my mom's Korean news, originally aired in South Korea on MBC. It's about Koshik the elephant who can talk. The news broadcast is in Korean, and I didn't subtitle it or anything, but you can read more about it here: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/r...

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[nickfifteen]

"what the hell was the point in watching this vid" -- English-speaking people aren't the ONLY people here on the Internet, y'know...

[Mirna Ortega]

Maybe, Korean elephant can gangnam style dance too... :D

[Brice MATHIEU]

i hope it teaches it to other elephants. if only people would sit down when the elephant says so, maybe it would come to understand the meaning of words

[Van Le]

running man brought me here :)

[Herpes Zoster]

Runningman brought me here

[mapledrops]

Flower Boy next door.. talked about this.. So I went to watch it.

[Feghoot]

It's amazing, but it makes sense. Elephants do have a much larger neocortex than humans, so language should be possible for them to understand. Although, considering that it seemed more like it was mimicing the man, it probably wasn't doing it as a means of communication (but most animals have some primitive form of telepathy to communicate anyways).

[Ma5haria]

If you're not teaching it to say "Help, they've turned me into an elephant!" you're wasting everybody's time.

[Tyler Witkowski]

i find it fishy that the five words the elephant can say are, "help this elephant swallowed me"

[krish desai]

same thing i thought

[Zeesarh l.j.]

Dumbass you need to go out of your tiny little room sometimes, theres a HUGE world out there you know?