History Main / SlidingScaleOfAnimalCommunication

* StuartLittle seems to blend 3 and 5. Stuart, and mice, and a canary, can talk and be understood by humans. These small creatures can then talk to any other animal but the humans don't understand those creatures, like the cats. However, at least in the movies the humans are never around when Stuart is talking to other creatures so the cats may be wise enough to act dumb.

* ''{{Spliced}}'' is mostly set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, but humans exist on the show, though none are expressly shown. (An interviewer may be human, but he is off camera.)

* The animals in ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' literally all speak to HUMANS! And they learn the dub language in seconds!

* ''Disney/TheJungleBook 2'' seems to be at this level, though only Shanti, Mowgli, and Ranjan are shown talking to the animals

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' usually seems to be a Level 2, as most episodes are just about the FunnyAnimal citizenry of Elmore, but it's actually a Level 10. The people of Elmore understand humans that are occasionally shown on television and can also talk to the non-anthropomorphic animals, [[EverythingTalks plants, and every other damn thing]]--they just choose not to most of the time.

* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie'' may seem like Level 1 examples because {{Pete}} and PJ are portrayed as {{Dogfaces}}, but they are really examples of this level because {{Pete}} and PJ are really cats.

* All of the dogs in ''Dogs Of The Drowned City'' can talk. Only one cat named Fuzz learned to speak dog, and [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Shep]] believes that dogs only talked to dogs (and dogs only), and that talking to a cat is like "talking to your kibble: a sign that you were four paws in the hole and going under".

* All of the dogs in ''Dogs Of The Drowned City'' can talk. Only one cat named Fuzz learned to speak dog, and [[PoliticallyIncorrectHero Shep]] believes that dogs only talked to dogs (and dogs only), and that talking to a cat is like "talking to your kibble: a sign that you were four paws in the whole and going under".

* Every animal in ''LittleBear'' can speak English but Tutu the dog speaks French instead.

* WowWowWubbzy is a WorldOfFunnyAnimals example.

* ''GarfieldsFunFest'' handles its animal characters this way.

* Most of {{Garfield}} falls under AnimalTalk, but one stand alone storybook has this. All animals can talk (except Odie), but keep up a {{Masquerade}} for unknown reasons. They break it to warn their owners about a tornado that they can sense.

* ''WesternAnimation/BabarTheElephant'' and ''WesternAnimation/BabarTheAdventuresOfBadou''.

* In Creator/AlanDeanFoster's ''Spellsinger'' series, all warmblooded animals, turtles, and amphibians can talk, as can some arthropods living in distant realms. The majority also use the IntelligentGerbil trope, but hoofed mammals and cetaceans have a more conventional animal anatomy.

* WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale, {{Goofy}}'s mynah bird Ellsworth, and PlutoThePup (albeit extremely speech impaired) and Humphrey the bear and Louie the mountain lion (albeit both [[TheUnintelligible unintelligibly]]) from the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts. Even though there is at least one TokenHuman, this is a FunnyAnimal world.

* TheWindInTheWillows

* BeeMovie

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', with a remarkable lack of any consistent underlying logic. Bun-bun can talk, and he does have extraordinary physical abilities and an only partially revealed past involving tangling with supernatural beings, but there's still no actual indication he's meant to be anything but an incredibly BadAss rabbit that happens to talk. Kiki the ferret can talk, as could all the other animals in the animal testing lab she was found in, but it's never said this was the result of any experiment performed on them, and it looks like it wasn't. The Easter Bunny can talk, but he's a... [[AnthropomorphicPersonification lepomorphic personification]]? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer communicates by [[TalkingWithSigns holding up signs with writing]]. Frog can talk as a result of a genetically modified earwig altering his brain and giving him intellect ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes a little more sense in context]]), but his mate Corsica can't, having remained an ordinary frog like he used to be. Some animals can only talk AnimalTalk, which the talking animals may understand, but Corsica is pretty brainless and it's become clear Frog is only imagining her croaks have any meaning — especially as [[spoiler:it's not even the same Corsica any more, and he can't tell the difference]]. Sometimes animals are intelligent and/or talk just for a joke. Sometimes humans think animals shouldn't talk (or talking animals think humans should think animals shouldn't talk), sometimes they're not bothered by it.

* Creator/CSLewis's ''{{Narnia}}'' falls in this level because some of the animals can talk and others cannot. Note that Talking Animals are specific creatures and differentiated from ordinary, non-talking animals, which can still be eaten or used for labor.

* Andalasia in ''{{Enchanted}}''.

* Most of the animals in Wonderland in the Disney live action Film/AliceInWonderland.

* WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale, {{Goofy}}'s mynah bird Ellsworth, and PlutoThePup (albeit extremely speech impaired) and Humphrey the bear and Louie the mountain lion (albeit both [[TheUnintelligible unintelligibly]]) from the ClassicDisneyShorts. Even though there is at least one TokenHuman, this is a FunnyAnimal world.

* The animals in KimbaTheWhiteLion literally all speak to HUMANS! And they learn the dub language in seconds!

* Elsie, Harry, and Dennis from Disney's ''{{Stanley}}'' only talk to Stanley, his friends, and Grandma Griff.

* DragonBall has Oolong (pig), Puar (cat) and Karin (cat) among the heroes' supporting cast. All are funny animals, and there are funny animals who are implied to be sentient that appear sporadically in city scenes. All non-anthro animals are non-sapient. Even Ginyu lost his ability to talk and be understood when he [[FreakyFridayFlip accidentally changed bodies with a Namekian frog]].

* A classic example of Level 5 is AnimalFarm, where the animals can talk to each other, but it seems only the pigs can talk to humans.

* Elsie, Harry, and Dennis from Disney's ''{{Stanley}}''.

* In ''{{Olivia}}'', only pigs can talk.
* In ''AngelinaBallerina'', only mice can talk.
* In ''MaxAndRuby'', only rabbits can talk.
* In ''TurboDogs'', only dogs can talk.

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', with a remarkable lack of any consistent underlying logic. Bun-bun can talk, and he does have extraordinary physical abilities and an only partially revealed past involving tangling with supernatural beings, but there's still no actual indication he's meant to be anything but an incredibly BadAss rabbit that happens to talk. Kiki the ferret can talk, as could all the other animals in the animal testing lab she was found in, but it's never said this was the result of any experiment performed on them, and it looks like it wasn't. The Easter Bunny can talk, but he's a... [[AnthropomorphicPersonification lepomorphic personification]]? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer communicates by [[TalkingWithSigns holding up signs with writing]]. Frog can talk as a result of a genetically modified earwig altering his brain and giving him intellect ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes a little more sense in context]]), but his mate Corsica can't, having remained an ordinary frog like he used to be. Some animals can only talk AnimalTalk, which the talking animals may understand, but Corsica is pretty brainless and it's become clear Frog is in fact only imagining her croaks have any meaning — especially as [[spoiler:it's not even the same Corsica any more, and he can't tell the difference]]. Sometimes animals are intelligent and/or talk just for a joke. Sometimes humans think animals shouldn't talk (or talking animals think humans should think animals shouldn't talk), sometimes they're not bothered by it.

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', with a remarkable lack of any consistent underlying logic. Bun-bun can talk, and he does have extraordinary physical abilities and an only partially revealed past involving tangling with supernatural beings, but there's still no actual indication he's meant to be anything but an incredibly BadAss rabbit that happens to talk. Kiki the ferret can talk, as could all the other animals in the animal testing lab she was found in, but it's never said this was the result of any experiment performed on them, and it looks like it wasn't. The Easter Bunny can talk, but he's a... [[AnthropomorphicPersonification lepomorphic personification]]? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer communicates by [[TalkingWithSigns holding up signs with writing]]. Frog can talk as a result of a genetically modified earwig altering his brain and giving him intellect ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it makes a little more sense in context]]), but his mate Corsica can't, having remained an ordinary frog like he used to be. Some animals can only talk AnimalTalk, which the talking animals may understand, but Corsica is pretty brainless and it's become clear Frog is in fact only imagining her croaks have any meaning — especially as [[spoiler:it's not even the same Corsica any more, and he can't tell the difference]]. Sometimes animals are intelligent and/or talk just for a joke. Sometimes humans think animals shouldn't talk, sometimes they're not bothered by it.

* TheAntBully only showed humans and insects talking.

* Donkey, the Three Little Pigs, the Three Blind Mice, and the Big Bad Wolf from {{Shrek}} and Puss In Boots from ''Shrek 2''. The ''{{Shrek}}'' movies and ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' generally fall either in this level and Level 8 but more like this level.