Animal Talk: All the Incredible Ways that Animals Communicate

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Despite the trope's name, this trope is not limited to animals that talk and also includes animals that communicate through realistic animal noises. In Bolt, animals can talk with one another regardless of species. This may be why Rhino never realizes that humans can't hear him speak English.

Conservation in action

Midnight: Fox and rabbit also. They speak... not of interest. Fox talk is all of kill. Rabbit have thistledown for brain.

I want to thank you for not hiding your light under a bushel. It is because of you I wandered into the wonderful world of animals on a deeper level. I talk to the animals who are around me all the time because of your book. As I dedicate my time to speaking on behalf of the animals, to the people of my church, understanding their world better because of what you have shared can only increase my ability to speak for them. Thank you so much, again, for choosing to move your life in this direction. It has blessed all of us who know you, or of you. L.S. a b Chandler, David (11 September 2007). "Farewell to a famous parrot". Nature. doi: 10.1038/news070910-4. S2CID 177171845 . Retrieved Jan 19, 2020. NOC, a captive beluga whale in the United States Navy's Cold Ops program, could mimic some words well enough to confuse Navy divers on at least one occasion. [28]Zig-zagged on Discworld, especially in books involving Gaspode. In his first appearance in Moving Pictures, Gaspode (who's a Talking Animal) is clear that without his magically enhanced intelligence he wouldn't have the ability to process complex language; he can translate for another dog, but all it says is " Laddie good boy! Good boy, Laddie!" But his next appearance in Men at Arms introduces the Dog Guild, and apparently the canine language is capable of producing terrifying political speeches, and the average Ankh-Morpork stray has enough reasoning power to understand them. The Fifth Elephant reveals he can also talk to wolves, although few wolves are interested in talking to him.

The term refers to animals who can imitate (though not necessarily understand) human speech. Parrots, for example, repeat phrases of human speech through exposure. [5] There were parrots that learnt to use words in proper context and had meaningful dialogues with humans. Alex, a grey parrot, understood questions about color, shape, size, number etc. of objects and would provide a one-word answer to them. [6] He is also documented to have asked an existential question. [7] Another grey parrot, N'kisi, could use 950 words in proper context, was able to form sentences and even understood the concept of grammatical tense. [8] Gef the talking mongoose was an alleged talking animal who inhabited a small house on the Isle of Man, off the coast of Great Britain. Fringe authors believe Gef was a poltergeist, a strange animal or cryptid. Contemporary academics believe it was most likely a hoax. [30] [31]

Cassowary birds may talk underground

The animal companions of druids and rangers have no special communication abilities apart from an empathic link to their masters. To make things even more confusing, an early Kanto episode had a frazzled wild Wartortle keep trying to relay something to Pikachu, but it couldn't understand what it was saying, so Pikachu sent out Squirtle to chat with the fellow. The cats can talk to one another in Papi Nyang but the humans can't understand them. It hasn't quite been confirmed if they understand the humans, due to Chev not listening to them. They haven't tried talking to other animals yet. It may or may not have been Gurney who dumped it, but the digest novels left it behind to make them easier for younger readers to comprehend. In Golden Treasure: The Great Green, most Goodbeasts can understand each other, describing their partially-telepathic language as "singing", while the No-Tails (humans) generally have great difficulty singing, if they can at all. There are exceptions in both cases: the player character, a Draak-Kin (dragon), has trouble understanding spiders and many other arthropods, and a few No-Tails can sing, even quite fluently. The different fonts used for each species of Goodbeast seems to imply how well the player character can understand them, with fellow Draak-Kin having clear, easy-to-read fonts, cats having loopy cursive fonts that are hard to read, and so on.