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Kosik the elephant often talks back when his keeper asks him to do something. The elephant at the Everland Amusement Park amusement park, a commercially operated park offering various forms of entertainment, such as arcade games, carousels, roller coasters, and performers, as well as food, drink, and souvenirs.  in South Korea can mimic his keeper's words, speaking the Korean words for "sit" and "no."

The 5-ton copycat vocalizes just as a person does: by exhaling ex·hale  
v. ex·haled, ex·hal·ing, ex·hales

v.intr.
1.
a. To breathe out.

b. To emit air or vapor.

2. To be given off or emitted.

v.tr.
 air over his vocal chords. The vibrating vibrating,
v using quivering hand motions made across the client's body for therapeutic purposes.
 bands of tissue shake surrounding air particles to produce sound waves.

A person shapes these vibrating waves into the sounds of words by moving his or her lips, teeth, and tongue. Kosik's talking technique? As the elephant exhales, he wiggles wiggles - [scientific computation] In solving partial differential equations by finite difference and similar methods, wiggles are sawtooth (up-down-up-down) oscillations at the shortest wavelength representable on the grid.  his trunk in his mouth.
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Title Annotation:Kosik, a elephant at Everland Amusement Park mimics sound
Author:Jango-Cohen, Judith
Publication:Science World
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:9SOUT
Date:Nov 13, 2006
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