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01-20-2008, 01:37 PM
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Well pointed out, Fuzzle Guy: You would know. It doesn’t explain how Munch is able to understand the Fuzzles, or how the wild Fuzzles freshly caught by Sligs (in ‘Mudokon Pens’, ‘Mudokon Fortress’, and possibly ‘Flub Fuels Scrub Pens’) can understand Munch. Also Rabid Fuzzles are supposedly escaped/released ADD experiments, but let’s take that with a pinch of salt and recognize it as a joke.

I have read that one of the most complex non‐human animal languages we have on Earth is that of a domestic cat, which uses a range of vocalizations to express affection and make demands. At the same time, most pet birds do not understand language so much as they might be conditioned to associate certain sounds with certain outcomes (although there are exceptions). The Fuzzles’ own ‘mee mee’ language seems to have its own syntax, and by the bad ending they seem to grasp ‘English’ syntax (as well as the concept of quarma).
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