5 Strange Animals In The World, Who Can Talk.

1. Koshik, the Elephant

Koshik is an Asian elephant with a special talent; He can talk. Well, a little, because Koshik has a small but impressive vocabulary of Korean. Knowing only five words, "annyong" ("hello"),...continue after the cut...
"anja" ("sit down"), "aniya" ("no"), "nuo" ("lie down") and "choah" ("good"), Koshik doesn't seem to understand what he's saying, but the ability to mimic the words at all is absolutely unprecedented. Koshik lives outside of Yongin in South Korea in the Everland Zoo. His trainers claim that he learned to imitate human words in 2004, and they attribute it to close contact with humans throughout his lifetime.

2. NOC, the Beluga Whale

In 1984, around the age of 9, NOC said his first words. For a human, this might have been worrisome, since that's a little old to finally start talking, but NOC was a beluga whale. Captured as a juvenile in 1977, NOC learned to mimic the speech of his human handlers and companions fairly early in life. Although the mimicry suddenly stopped when he reached sexual maturity four years later, the fact that it happened at all is undeniably amazing.

3. Alex, the Gray Parrot

Bought when he was one year old, Alex was an African Gray Parrot and the subject of a major scientific study spanning over thirty years. His owner, Irene Pepperberg, was an animal psychologist at the University of Arizona (and eventually elsewhere), who was studying language in relation to animals. In fact, Alex's name itself was an acronym for Pepperberg's “Animal Learning Experiment.” By the time of his death in 2007, Alex could recognize more than fifty objects, had a vocabulary of over 100 words, and was touted as having the intelligence of a four-year-old human. Before his death, his last words to Pepperberg were “You be good.”  

4.Hoover, the Seal

Found by George and Alice Swallow in 1971, Hoover the seal was just a baby when he was taken in by his human parents. After earning his name by eating at the pace of a vacuum cleaner and outgrowing his tub, Hoover began to live in the pond outside his adoptive parents' home. Here, he learned how to speak and imitate voices, including a thick New England Accent. Eventually, he was moved to the New England Aquarium, where he entertained onlookers, crying, “Well hello there!” and “Get outta here!” until his death in 1985.

5. Odie, the Pug

Not to be confused with Garfield the cat's brain-dead roommate, this canine named Odie was anything but stupid. Although his vocabulary only included three words, that was more than enough to capture the hearts and attention of the United States. He was featured on Late Night with David Letterman and The Oprah Winfrey Show, cheerfully bellowing out “I love you!” to his owner, Ruth.