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[[File:Hawkman_birdtalk_250_5059.jpg|link=Hawkman|frame|Like all good crimefighters, Hawkman regularly talks with his network of informants.]]
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A character is able to talk to animals.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* As mentioned above, [[
** It's also been shown that this ability can extend to humans (or at least {{spoiler|Martians}}), to an extent. In ''JLA'', when an enemy [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|ridicules Aquaman for being able to talk to fish]], he isolates the bad guy's basal ganglia (inherited from marine ancestors) and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|gives him a seizure]].
* [[Hawkman]] can talk to birds. Given the kind of stick Aquaman's been given though, he keeps quiet about it these days.
** [[
* Ant-Man's cybernetic helmet lets him talk to ants.
* Talking to animals is one of the lesser-known powers of [[Wonder Woman]], though this is [[Depending on the Writer|sometimes]] just written as her being a [[Friend to All Living Things]].
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** The 1967 musical version even brings up the meat problem. Dr. Dolittle explains that he is now a vegetarian because he doesn't like to make a habit of eating his friends, then launches into a song about how hard it is not to. If memory serves, he does cook some bacon for the carnivores to eat (which makes the pig quite upset).
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' gained the power to talk to snakes the first time [[Big Bad]] Voldemort tried to kill him. Parselmouths are people who can talk to snakes by hissing at them. When a snake talks to a Parselmouth, they hear the hissing as if it were in their native language.
* In ''[[The Belgariad]]'', people with the Sha-Dar ability can communicate telepathically with horses. The Disciples of Aldur (and it is implied anybody else who commands [[Magic
* In the ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' books, all babies can talk to animals. Ms. Poppins happens never to lose this ability (a dog informs her of her uncle's laughing fit). Just showed how she was Practically Perfect in Every Way.
* In ''[[Sea of Trolls]]'', Jil is exposed to dragon blood, the magic of which allows her to understand birds. It is not clear whether she can speak back to them, however. Also, this turns out [[Blessed with Suck|to suck]] because the birds never have anything worthwhile to say and '''[[Most Annoying Sound|won't shut up.]]'''
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One of the characters in ''[[
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]'', there is a woodsman who can talk to animals. You recruit him at one point to help with a village where animals seem to run things... and then he reveals that he can't talk to ''these'' animals because they're [[Baleful Polymorph|people who were turned into animals]]. He ''can'', however, speak to the people, because they're transmogrified animals.
* Luke from ''[[Professor Layton]]'' can talk to animals (though in the first game the translation merely makes him a [[Friend to All Living Things]]). In the second game, he gets the idea to talk with a group of cows (who moo while he makes rather polite conversation) to find out which two of them were swapped with one another. Layton, who has consistently been shown throughout the first game as the sensible one, wonders why he hadn't thought of that himself.
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