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* In the badass commanding-animals-in-battle category, Shido Fuyuki of ''[[GetBackers]]''. The manga goes into a little more detail: apparently, any member of the Maryuudo (i.e., Amon Natsuki, who was asked to help rescue Madoka by monkeys) can talk to animals, but it is Shido's tribe, the Shiki, that has the ability to awaken the animals' ability to think and act on the level of humans. There's also the Maryuudo's mortal enemies, the Kiryuudo, who communicate with and command bugs.

* Belldandy in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' even makes sure to use [[Japanese Honorifics|polite honorifics]] when talking to animals. Or to some [[Haunted Technology|inanimate objects]].

** [[Filler|Apis]] would also qualify.

** Mermaids can naturally talk to fish, and Jinbe also displays this ability (remarked to be unusual for a fishman).

* In one episode of the original ''[[Astro Boy]]'', a naturalist develops a machine that can control animals using ultrasonic waves to affect their brains. He uses it in an attempt to stop a land developer from destroying a forest, first by attempting to assassinate the construction company's executives & their families with things like attack dogs & raging bulls, & when that fails, using hordes of every animal imaginable to overrun the city, before he is killed by the title character ([[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|don't feel too bad, he was about to throw a bomb into a room full of hostages]]). In later versions of the series, Astro's little sister, Uran has the ability to communicate with animals, presumably based on the same technology, which she uses at one point to convince fellow Tezuka manga star Leo/Kimba the White Lion not to eat a terrified schoolboy.

* Prince Cab in ''[[Transformers Super God Masterforce]]''.

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* Fauna in [[DC Nation]] has this as one of her powers, and was a bit surprised when she found out Beast Boy didn't. Unlike her [[Shapeshifting]] and [[The Beast Master|Beastmaster]] abilities, she is completely comfortable using it.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness]]'': Torak. Only with wolves, ravens, and bears though.

* In the ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Hitchhiker's Guide]]'' books, after Arthur Dent learns how to fly, he also teaches himself the language of birds. This turns out to be a mistake, since all they talk about is nuts, bugs, sex and power-to-lift ratios. This means he's constantly surrounded by their inane chatter, but he ignores them as much as possible.

* In ''Charlotte's Web,'' Fern is able to understand what the animals are saying when they talk to each other, although she is not showing speaking to them herself.

* [[Tamora Pierce]]'s ''[[Tortall Universe|Immortals]]'' quartet is based around the principle of the heroine being able to speak to animals. Later she can even turn into them. At one point she even addresses the meat-eating dilemma, saying that after being hunted in both deer and goose form, she was down to only being able to eat chicken, mutton, and fish.

* Dexter of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' wanted to speak with a dog; constructed a translator device and learned that the dog was saying: 'Hey! Hey! I'm a dog! Look! Look, it's a thing! Over here! A dog!' -and so on.

* In the ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' episode "Raise the Oozy Scab" Jimmy has a device that allows him to speak to fish, which he hopes to use to ask for directions to a sunken treasure. It fails, as the fish just want to talk gossip. Later, when the sub is attacked by a giant squid, Jimmy modifies the device to be able to speak squid and convince it to let them go.

* Eliza Thornberry, in ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]''. (Her first name may be an elaborate [[Shout-Out]]: Eliza ''Doolittle'' was the female lead in ''[[My Fair Lady]]''. In the film, the male lead was played by Rex Harrison, who also starred in the 1967 version of ''Dr. Dolittle''.)

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Bird-bot of Alcatraz", Bender suffers an accident that causes him to reboot, and automatically goes into "Penguin mode" due to penguins being the first thing he sees upon reactivating. Interestingly enough, after he later returns to his default "human" mode, he appears to retain the ability to speak Penguin, encouraging them (in their own language) to attack the people trying to hunt them. Whether or not he can perform all this with other animals is unknown, but it seems entirely possible.

*** Not really, since he doesn't "speak with Fish" at all. What he does do is telepathically communicate and command, NOT ASK, Marine life.

*** Wonder Woman, though infrequently.

* In the ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS episode "Werewolf of the Timberland", the Indian named White Feather could speak to wolves and owls (and presumably other forest creatures).

* Possibly a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', in ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'', baby Kate can talk to dogs and cats. To them, people speak pure gibberish.

 

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