Amazing animals that talk back to you

People talk to animals all the time, especially to their pets. Yet few animals really answer back. A few that do (or did, as they’ve sadly passed on) are featured here.

Alex the talking parrot

Without a doubt, the smartest bird that ever lived was Alex the Grey parrot. Alex amazed the world and bot only had a vocabulary of hundreds of words, but would create meaningful word combinations for objects he was given that he’d never before been shown.

In that way, Alex was a super genius and it proved to scientists that visited him around the world that Alex was really thinking and understood the meaning of the words he spoke.

Alex was owned by Dr. Irene Pepperberg who also proved that her brilliant bird could also spell.

Video: Alex The Talking Parrot

Canine conversationalists

Cute little Odie the pug, a TV sensation, loved to say “I love you.” He said it so convincingly that everyone believed him.

Video: Odie saying I love you on Montell Williams’ talk show

Another chatty guy was Misha the Husky. Mishka sang with an iPad, said “hello” and shouted “Noooooo!” when she didn’t agree.

Video: Mishka chattin away

Catty and chatty

Oh Long Johnson, talked with humans and other cats. Not only does the cat talk, but it’s really funny. It might have missed its calling. The owner should have taught it a bunch of one-liners. Then it could have played nightclubs.

Video: Oh Long Johnson talking

Tiggy the talking cat died in 2010. She became an Internet sensation. She lived in Grimbsy, England with her owner and loved the limelight.

Video: Tiggy saying hello

Tiggy the talking cat at home

Another recent Internet phenomenon is the cat named Tiggy. Tiggy the Talking Cat (1990 – June 23rd 2010) was a unique cat who made a unique talking like noise. Tiggy is from Grimsby, England and was born in 1990; she died on Wednesday 23rd June 2010 at the age of 20.

Eloquent elephants

Did you know that elephants can talk? They can. Several are documented to have chatted with their owners or keepers.

A famous one–Batyr who lived in Kazakhstan, had a vocabulary of more than 20 phrases.

Tape recordings were made of the talking elephant saying such things as “Batyr is hungry” and “Batyr is good.” When he was thirsty, he would walk up to his keeper and say “drink.”  

Batyr was so beloved that when he died in 1993 a commemorative stamp was issued to honor his memory.

Another elephant that talks lives in South Korea. He speaks Korean phrases and has a vocabulary of more than two dozen words.

Video: Korean talking elephant

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