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The Sliding Scale of Animal Communication ranges from animals who cannot communicate beyond body language (or simple hand gestures if they are anthropomorphic), to animals who can communicate intelligently with humans.
Note: Since Beast Men and Little Bit Beastly people are considered more humans (ie sapient) than animals, this trope doesn't apply to them. |
| | Sliding Scale of Animal Communication |
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Tom and Jerry: Zig-zagged. Most of the time, they're completely speechless outside of laughing, screaming, and the occasional gulp, but in some episodes Tom or Jerry has a line or two. |
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Many of the animal characters in Looney Tunes, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird. |
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Most of the animal characters in Shrek, except for Dragon who is Level 1. |
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Massimo from Producing Parker is an interesting case, as he is able to talk to any human he pleases, it's just kept a secret from everyone except Parker. |
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Underdog, although all the other dogs in the movie are Level 1. |
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The mice and rats in The Tale of Despereaux. |
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Donald Duck is a Funny Animal like all the other characters, but is hard to understand. |
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The rabbits in Hop. |
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Algicosathlon Camp has the Smile Dog King (Number 22326) talking normally with Black, Nave and Yvan, who are "humans". However, all other smile dogs are firmly in Level 1, along with Black's cat. |
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Paulie the Parrot. |
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Tarzan Elephants and gorillas understand each other. |
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Top Cat: The cats can talk to the humans. The other animals (such as the anteater) are Level 1 though. |
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Dumbo: Most of the animals are Level 1 (or 3 in the case of the storks, elephants, and crows), but Timothy Mouse can talk to humans. |
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In an odd case, Snoopy from Peanuts is an anthro dog who doesn't talk. Despite this, he's certainly one of the most verbose and eloquent of the characters, verbalizing his thoughts via a typewriter. His pal Woodstock might surpass him except that we don't know what Woodstock says exactly. Though despite said eloquence, he can't write stories to save his life. |
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Scooby-Doo is the Trope Codifier. |
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Played straight in the Tom and Jerry Tales and The Tom and Jerry Show, however. |
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The animals in Zookeeper. |
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Martha Speaks is about a dog who can speak when she eats alphabet soup. |
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While most of the animals Aladdin are Level 1, Iago the Parrot can talk to humans. |
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Pokémon: The Series: Most of the Pokémon are Level 1, but Meowth of the Team Rocket trio fits this level. He used to be a normal street Meowth but he taught himself to talk to humans. As a result, he's often treated on par with humans and often forgets that he's a Meowth. |
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Tom and Jerry:
Tom and Jerry: Zig-zagged. Most of the time, they're completely speechless outside of laughing, screaming, and the occasional gulp, but in some episodes Tom or Jerry has a line or two.
Played straight in the Tom and Jerry Tales and The Tom and Jerry Show, however. |
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The characters in Little Bear can talk with Token Human Emily. |
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Most of the animals in South Park are Level 1, but some episodes feature animals that can talk to humans. |
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The cats of Warrior Cats have an elaborate society and culture unlike real feral cat behavior, but almost never communicate with other species (the only times this happens are when one cat speaks Dog to make some dogs go away, when an unusually intelligent rat speaks Cat, and when Midnight the Badger speaks Cat). They remain quadrupedal but vocalize more than real life cats. |
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The animals in The Chronicles of Narnia. |
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The animals in Barnyard can talk to humans, but choose not to. |
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Brian the Dog (and a few others, like Vinnie and Jasper) from Family Guy. |
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