The Magic of Metaphors

Spoken language is a tool that humans have capitalized on to thrust our species to the top of the food chain but, as is obvious, we are not the only animal species that have developed verbal means of communication. We humans might not be able to interpret what dogs, dolphins, and donkeys are saying to one another but it is clear that they understand the verbal and non-verbal (body language and microexpressions) physical cues of their own kind.