History Main / TalkingAnimal

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13580894/1/The-Lion-Guard-Phineas-and-Ferb-s-adventure The Lion Guard: Phineas and Ferb's Adventure]]'', Perry is able to talk, but he doesn't talk to other people, as he's supposed to act like an ordinary animal. He is apparently allowed to talk to Doofenshmirtz, though, and some wild animals.

* Salem from ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' is a talking cat, although he was [[WasOnceAMan once human.]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Morgana is a talking cat, but with a twist: only people who have been inside of the [[MentalWorld Metaverse]] can understand him. Basically, this works on a similar principle as Gaspode the Wonder Dog from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. Everybody knows that cat's can't talk, so all a normal person hears is "Meow". But once you hear him talk in the Metaverse, and your brain accepts that you can hear him, you start to understand him in reality. This is inevitably followed by some variation of "Did that cat just talk?" every time the Phantom Thieves take on a new member. [[spoiler: Proves to be much more important than you might think, as The Traitor gives themselves away due to a slip up over this little fact. [[MemeticMutation Pancakes]], anyone?]]

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* Webcomic/{{Realmwalker}} has Surge, a magical water horse, and also Huginn and Muninn, 2 talking ravens.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' encounter both talking alien dogs and talking [[CardCarryingVillain card carrying]] gorillas. Also, velociraptors speak, but in their own language.

* In ''ComicStrip/PoochCafe'', dogs and their owners can communicate, with each other and with other people. Nobody thinks this is unusual.

%% * Jillas the fox and Pokota, the, um... critter from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}''.
* Shamisen, Kyon's cat in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', for a short time. Of course, normal cats don't talk and this is all [[RealityWarper Haruhi's]] fault. Shamisen is something of a philosopher, and his first few words toy with the trope. When the gang express their surprise that he can talk, he brings up the possibility that he is merely articulating noises that correspond to human speech without understanding them. Kyon points out that by that line of reasoning, there is also a chance that every human conversation that ever occurs is a complete coincidence.

* ''Literature/WhenTheRobbersCameToCardamomTown'' features a talking [[PollyWantsAMicrophone parrot]] and a talking camel. The former was taught by whoever caught him and the latter was taught by a dromedary. However, the robbers' lion and the dog can't speak.

* ''ComicBook/PeterWheat'': The comic is set in a wheat field holding a kingdom of {{Lilliputians}}, bug people, and small animals. Being a mid-20th century cartoon, the animals could all speak English to prevent a language barrier.

* ''ComicBook/PeterWheat'': The comic is set in a wheat field holding a kingdom of {{Lilliputians}}, bug people, and small animals. Being a mid-20th century cartoon, the animals could all speak English to prevent a language barrier.

* Bush's Baked Beans (and associated products such as Bush's Grillin' Beans) had Jay Bush and Duke, a talking dog with a singular agenda to try to sell the secret family recipe for the beans for big bucks and had a seemingly endless well of devious ideas as to how to go about doing this.

* Pinkie Pie from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. While all the ponies talk, most of them are {{Civilized Animal}}s and Pinkie Pie is the only one who can be called uncivilized.

* The "Literature/PussInBoots" is one of the more well known fairy-tales involving a talking animal as the main character. There is no explanation of why the titular cat is perfectly able to speak human languaje, but in some of the earliest versions of a similar tale, an equivalente character turned out to be a fairy in disguise.

* A 2000s commercial for Connect Four has a group of animals watching a boy and girl playing the game and bragging them to do it again.

* The Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon has more examples that you can shake a stick at. At many times it tries to maintain a semi-realism with animals being able to talk to humans.

%% * [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Not For Kids]] example: Grouchy old warhound Blood in ''Film/ABoyAndHisDog''.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}''. Sure, all the animals in fairy-tale land Andalasia can talk (and sing), but once Pip the Chipmunk is transported to the real world, he becomes a SpeechImpairedAnimal, and instead communicates mostly using equally-improbable gesticulating, miming and (more probable) chipmunk sounds.

* The French horror film ''Film/{{Baxter}}'' is narrated by a murderous pit bull who longs for a proper master.

* In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', Arctic foxes can speak some small amounts of English, as can the "armored Bears".

%% * In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/ChroniclesOfChaos The Orphans of Chaos]]'', the dog Lelaps.
* One of the hallmarks of Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. Note that Talking Animals are specific creatures (in fact, the Beavers are [[CivilizedAnimal Civilized Animals]], and Reepicheep is more-or-less a FunnyAnimal) and are differentiated from ordinary, non-talking animals, which can still be eaten or used for labor.

* Pretty much every animal ''except'' Toto that makes the trip to [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] can talk there. [[spoiler:Toto can as well, he's just quiet]].

* ''Literature/TheLittleWitch'': The little Witch has a raven {{familiar}} named Abraxas that can speak.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''
** In ''Literature/TheHobbit'':
** Certain old ravens are able to speak the common language. When the old thrush, who has a language that can only be understood by certain humans, overhears Thorin explain this, it flies away and finds a raven to tell them news of Smaug's assault and death.
** The great hound Huan in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' spoke three times. It's quite possible he wasn't a hound after all but a Maia (angel-like creature) in animal form -- Tolkien doesn't seem to have made up his mind about this.
** Wargs and Eagles, on the other hand, can talk all the time.
* [[Creator/JRRTolkien Tolkien's]] other works feature these as well, since they were often crafted as fairy tales for his children.
* The animals in ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' can all talk. It's averted in the movie version, which makes the Swamp of Sadness scene, much much more tragic. [[spoiler:As Artax gives a whole suicidal speech before drowning]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' looked after SCP-1470, a fringed jumping spider with human-level intelligence also capable of telepathy, allowing him to speak with humans. However, in every other respect, he was a normal jumping spider... which included lifespan, and he died of natural causes after only three months. At first he thought the people he was talking to were other spiders like himself, and had something of a FreakOut when he realized he was actually speaking to those [[HumansAreCthulhu gigantic shapes moving outside his terrarium]].

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel's]] buddy, Talky Tawny the Tiger. In the Golden Age, he was an UpliftedAnimal, and he often leaned more towards FunnyAnimal. More modern interpretations, when they include him at all, instead present him as some sort of magical spirit or eldritch entity who just chooses to take the form of a tiger.

* Also, Bill Watterson's beloved Hobbes, of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' is only animate when alone with Calvin, as a general rule, yet seems to live quite an independent life from Calvin, chasing critters in the forest and reading comic books with interest. Hobbes is very often the more sensible, the more sane, and the more eloquent of the title duo, though he does have his moments of primal savagery (which he works off by attacking Calvin whenever he comes home from school, or having Calvin throw a slice of jellied toast for him to "catch").

* In the German comic ''ComicStrip/{{Rudi}}'', apparently ants and slugs not only are this, but are also organized like a fascist state and actively planning to bring down human society. Especially, eat all their food. In other words, not only HumansAreBastards in this comic.

* Nyandestar from ''Anime/YuGiOhGoRush'' is a talking cat with a star-shaped marking on her head. She is partnered with a human named Manabu Sogetsu within an organization called MIK.

* The climax of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'' leaves [[spoiler:[[TurtlePower Coco Jumbo the tortoise]] as this. [[RealityWarper Silver Chariot Requiem]] causes every human and animal in Rome to FreakyFridayFlip with nearby beings, and the soul of [[BackForTheDead Jean-Pierre Polnareff]] ended up in Coco Jumbo's body after his own was killed.]] Somehow, he is able to speak when other [[spoiler:human souls swapped into animal bodies]] are shown not to be, [[spoiler: and when [[ArtisticLicenseBiology tortoises]] lack vocal cords and lips]].

The FairyTale is more likely to feature a talking animal than a fairy. (Although they do often [[WasOnceAMan turn out to be humans]] [[BalefulPolymorph under a curse]]. Or even ghosts.)

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', most residents of Betel's Forest appear to be regular animals who can talk, though it's possible that some are only animals [[BalefulPolymorph due to the barrier's effects]]. Elsewhere, the creatures bullying Tomo were able to speak Forest language but didn't show human-like behaviour beyond that. There are also [[CivilizedAnimal civilized]] and [[FunnyAnimal funny]] talking animals, such as Yfa's family and Misha.

* ''WesternAnimation/KassaiAndLuk'': Marana is a woman cursedby [[BigBad Togoum]] to turn into a gazelle by day. She is still able to speak while she's in gazelle form, though.