Basic Trope: Animals can talk to each other regardless of species, but not to humans.
- Straight: Fido the Dog and Fluffy the Cat can talk to each other, but not to humans.
- Exaggerated: Fido and Fluffy can not only to talk to each other, but also to plants and inanimate objects.
- Downplayed: Fido and Fluffy can talk to each other at a toddler level.
- Justified: All animals spoke the same language until humans invented new ones. Fido and Fluffy speak to each other in the universal animal language.
- Inverted: Fido and Fluffy can talk to humans, but not to each other.
- Subverted: Fido and Fluffy can talk to each other, but have to translate each other's dialogue when other cats and dogs are around.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that those cats and dogs couldn't understand Fido and Fluffy because they were raised in isolation. When Fido and Fluffy meet other animals they can communicate perfectly fine.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Animals communicate through body language like animals in Real Life.
- Enforced: "We should make the animals talk to each other so kids can understand what's going on in the animals' minds."
- Lampshaded: "Why can't humans understand me, when every other animal can?
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do animals in children's movies always seem to be able to talk, even in movies where humans can't understand them?"
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