An elephant speaks

The zoo animal in South Korea speaks five words perfectly

That animals are smart, is well known. But they also can learn alien languages is a startling piece of news. Koshik, an Asian elephant at Everland Zoo in South Korea can actually be five words in Korean understandable by itself. There are words that he hears every day: "annyong" (hello), "anja" (sit), "aniya" (no), "Nuo" (lie down) and "choah" (good). For researchers, such "speaking animal" an exciting affair. You can draw conclusions on the evolution of language, learning words and the creation of music draw.

Cheap sunflower oil is often better than bio-oil

Good sunflower oil must be expensive or organic. To this end, the Stiftung Warentest comes after a comparison of 16 and 12 cold-pressed refined sunflower oils, including 13 with the organic label.

"A 'good' sunflower oil is already for 1.49 euros to have per liter, the same amount of 'defective' bio-oil from sunflower seeds costs however 8.50 euros," it says in the November issue of the magazine "test". The prices of the tested oils, a total of 1.49 to 9.60 euros per liter.