Animals, Birds, and Dr. Dolittle — Flashcards

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Doctor John Dolittle is a people's doctor who later becomes an animal doctor. He first treats human patients, then learns animal language from Polynesia and gives up being a people's doctor altogether…

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He believes Dolittle knows more about animals than the local veterinarians. He also praises Dolittle's book about cats and says Dolittle understands the way animals think.

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Theodosia is the wife of the Cat's-food-Man. She is a scholar and reads Dolittle's book about cats to her husband because he cannot read or write.

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Polynesia is a parrot that can talk in two languages: people's language and bird language. She teaches Dolittle how animals communicate.

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It means the language that birds speak. It does not mean the alphabet letters for birds. Dolittle begins learning this new language from Polynesia.

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She explains that animals communicate with their ears, feet, tails, and other body parts too. Jip, the dog, is understood by his ear-scratching and nose-twitching.

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Polynesia explains that Jip is asking, 'Can’t you see that it has stopped raining?' Dogs nearly always use their noses for asking questions in this story.

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He becomes excited and curious. He rushes to get a book and pencil and begins writing down the bird words Polynesia tells him.