Asian elephant Kaushik, who turns 35 this year, has shocked scientists by becoming the first of his kind to copy human speech.. Unilad writes about this.

Kaushik is now at the Everland Zoo in Yongin, about an hour and a half drive from the South Korean capital Seoul..

Using his trunk, Kaushik places it in his mouth and uses vibrations to accurately imitate a human voice..

His Korean vocabulary already amounts to at least five words - "

Dr. Angela Steger from the University of Vienna in Austria asked the zoo to conduct research on Kaushik after seeing a video of him talking. She was given permission to do this.

" Human speech has two important aspects: pitch (how high or low the sound is) and timbre (the musical quality of the voice), and Kaushik matches both of these aspects. He always puts the tip of his trunk in his mouth and then modulates the oral cavity,"

She clarified that during the study no x-ray of the elephant's oral cavity was used, so no one knows what is happening in his mouth.

“But he invented a new method of sound production to coordinate his vocal movements with human interlocutors. Considering the elephant's enormous size, long vocal tract and other anatomical differences - for example, it has a trunk instead of lips. and a huge larynx - and he really matches the pitch of his coaches’ voices, it’s really shocking,” Steger emphasized.

Let us remind you that the elephant played a prank on her friend by turning off the water while she was bathing..

Focus also wrote about why elephants have such huge ears.