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How does Eliza Thornberry's ability to talk to animals work on a grand scale?

In numerous episodes of *The Wild Thornberrys*, it’s shown where Eliza is speaking to numerous species of animals at once (many in different classes as well). However, in “The Great Bangaboo”, it’s revealed that to the ears of other humans, when Eliza talks to an animal she’s mimicking that animal (to a bunch of Indonesian kids, Eliza sounds like a chimpanzee when talking to Darwin). One would assume that this is a defense mechanism that would prevent someone from figuring out that Eliza can talk to animals; it also makes sense that the only way to lose her powers is for her to forfeit them by admitting their existence. 


This leads to my question: how does Eliza Thornberry’s ability to talk to animals work on a grand scale? If Debbie were to have walked in on her in that Galapagos food-chain episode where she’s talking to fishes, flies, and finches all at once, what would Debbie hear? What do the animals hear? Is “animal” one language, and each animal have their own dialect (like AAVE, Cajun, Appalachian, et cetera American English)? If so, how do they all tend to clearly understand Eliza?
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Her sounding like an orangutan is a sort of perception filter. It's basically magic. Humans hear something incomprehensible, and filter it to make the most sense -- Eliza making noises at a chimp? Must be imitating a chimp, like people barking at dogs or meowing at cats. However, each individual animal hears her in their own "language."