Quoted By:
>Real world
>Many animals are rather intelligent, can understand some human commands
>Some gorillas in particular have been able to communicate with humans via sign language
>Almost no animal can duplicate sounds that come close to sounding like human speech, due to not having vocal cords like ours
Pokemon could be considered the same way... as long as you're only considering the cries from the video games. If you were to use the anime as canon, everything would be fucked up.
