{"id":453,"date":"2008-08-08T07:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=453"},"modified":"2008-08-08T07:35:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T07:35:05","slug":"elephantstoriesandpsychologypart2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/elephantstoriesandpsychologypart2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Stories and Psychology: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Batyr, The Talking Elephant (1970 – 1993)
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\nIn 1977 the young elephant Batyr made his ability to mimic human speech known to his keepers at the Karaganda Zoo in Kazakhstan. Batyr apparently learned to produce about twenty words by using his trunk–placing it in his mouth and using his bottom jaw and tongue. A. N. Pogrebnoj-Aleksandroff studied Batyr, recording the elephant’s speech and writing many articles about him. “Wikipedia”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batyr<\/a> says that Batyr “delighted zoo-goers at large by asking his attendants for water and regularly praising (or, infrequently chastising) himself.”
\nBatyr had been rejected by his mother as a young calf and hand-reared by humans. He had no interaction with other elephants after his infancy.<\/p>\n

VOCABULARY<\/b>
\nAccording to Pogrebnoj-Aleksandroff, Batyr was able to reproduce the following words, phrases, and noises:
\n\u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0301\u0440<\/b> \u2014 Batyr \u2014 abruptly (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u042f<\/b> \u2014 I’m \u2014 very abruptly and to combination of his name, at a long pronunciation so “I’m-Batyr,” sounded almost together
\n\u0411\u0430\u0301\u0442\u044b\u0301\u0440<\/b> \u2014 Batyr \u2014 thoughtfully-tenderly and lingeringly (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0440, \u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0440, \u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0440\u2026<\/b> \u2014 Batyr, Batyr, Batyr \u2014 joyfully running in a cage (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0412\u043e\u0434\u044b\u0301 <\/b>\u2014 Water \u2014 ask (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0425\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0301\u0448\u0438\u0439<\/b>\u2014 Good \u2014 as is good fellow (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0440 \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0301\u0448\u0438\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Good Batyr \u2014 (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u041e\u0439-\u0451-\u0451\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Oh-yo \u2014 (it is very sonorous \u2014 the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0414\u0443\u0440\u0430\u043a<\/b> \u2014 The Fool \u2014 seldom and abruptly (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u041f\u043b\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Bad \u2014 it is rare (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0411\u0430\u0442\u044b\u0440 \u043f\u043b\u043e\u0445\u043e\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Bad Batyr \u2014 it is rare (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0418\u0434\u0438\u0301 <\/b>\u2014 Go \u2014 (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0418\u0434\u0438 (\u043d\u0430) \u0445\u0443\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Go onto penis (on-similarity the American expression ‘fuck you’) \u2014 the obscene Russian slang; first and unique time during telecast shooting (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0425\u0443\u0439<\/b> \u2014 The Russian slang of the penis \u2014 seldom and abruptly (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0411\u0430\u0301-\u0431\u0430<\/b> \u2014 the short of “babushka” \u2014 the grandmother; short children’s sound “ba” (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0414\u0430\u0301 <\/b>\u2014 Yes \u2014 (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0414\u0430\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Give (me) \u2014 (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0414\u0430\u0439-\u0434\u0430\u0439-\u0434\u0430\u0439<\/b> \u2014 Give, give, give… \u2014 (the trunk in the mouth)
\n\u0420\u0430\u0437-\u0434\u0432\u0430-\u0442\u0440\u0438<\/b> \u2014 One, two, three \u2014 dancing, being turned and hopping (the trunk in the mouth)
\nA whistle of human
\nThe words of human speech said at level of infrasonic and ultrasonic frequencies
\nA gnash imitation of rubber or polyfoam (foam plastic) on glass;
\nThe peep of rats or mice
\nThe bark of dogs
\nThe natural blares of elephants
\nIn 1993, Batyr died; I have found two different accounts: that Batyr didn’t wake up from sedation after being put under for foot care, or that he died from complications regarding inflammation of the kidneys and kidney stones.<\/p>\n

BIBLIOGRAPHY:<\/b>
\nA short list works about or including the story of Batyr:
\nThe most truthful history or who are talking? An Elephant?!
\nA.Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, 1979-1993. ISBN 0972126600.
\nReincarnation-\u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u043f\u043b\u043e\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435
\nA.Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, 2001. ISBN 097212666x.
\nSpeaking Animals
\nA.Dubrov, 2001. ISBN 5879690865.
\nSpeaking Birds and Speaking Animals
\nO.Silaeva, V.Ilyichev, A.Dubrov, 2005. ISBN 5944290161.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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