I always been under the assumption that most mammal and avian species communicate vocally. There are lots of inflection tones between when dogs: Bark, whimper, whine, howl, snarl, etc; or when Cats: mewl, hiss, growl, purr, etc. Birds definitely have several calls for warning, gathering, mating, food sightings also
yes, but i figured it would be akin to a polyvalent word. the word itself doesn't mean anything, but the entonations and how you express it in tells you what is the intended message. i know for a fact dogs and cats can recognize certain words the owners use. so you'd think if they had a translatable language, someone would have figured out a dogtionaire by now