“Anthropoglot” is a rare word, but it’s a recognizable thing: An anthropoglot is an animal that makes humanlike speech sounds, the most recognizable being the various species of parrot. “Anthropoglot” is based on the Latin “anthropoglottus,” meaning “speaking like a human being.” As a prefix, “anthropo-” indicates human beings, while “glot” indicates knowledge of language. Birds are thought of as the standard “talking” animals, because they have a tongue similar to that of a human, which allows for similar sounds. But there’s a South Korean elephant named Koshik that has proved himself capable of “speaking” Korean by using his trunk as a stand-in for a tongue in order to simulate what scientists called “very accurate imitations of speech.” Koshik can simulate the words “yes,” “no,” “sit,” and “lie down,” among a few others, in Korean.