Animal Farm
Humans and animals have always talked to each other. Lest you think this untrue, consider if a human were walking by a pig pen and were to say to a pig therein, hello , the pig would wag its piggly wiggly little tail and come running over. If a pig were to grunt, hello at a human walking by his pen, the human would look over and keep walking by. What is never clear is did the human not understand the pig or simply ignored the lower status pig. Humans are like that - ignoring lower status animals while courteous to higher status animals. If a lion were to roar, hello to a passing human, you can be assured that the human would stop, look at the lion, and gently and as sweetly as possible say, nice lion . Humans are animals too. We talk to each other, all too often, with not much worthwhile to say. If a rich human is passing by, the other huma...