Doctor Dolittle, the hero of Hugh Lofting’s children’s series about an English country doctor who learned to speak the language of animals, turns 100 this year. My own acquaintance with the doctor ...

Doctor Dolittle also uses common language to refer to other animals. For example, he is extremely concerned that Sophie, a seal who was kidnapped from her natural home, lost her husband, and releases ...

Talk to the Animals? Try the all-important skill of talking to the audience -- especially the pint-size critters inevitably in attendance. And if this new legit version of the famed ...

Hugh Lofting's storybooks about a British doctor who could speak to animals have been classics almost since they first appeared in 1920. Anderson, a linguistics and cognitive psychology professor at ...

Dr. Dolittle does a lot for the environment in "Dr. Dolittle 2," a wisecracking follow-up to the 1998 tale of the genial multilingual physician. Star Eddie Murphy, who was upstaged by the talking ...

A fresh musical stage version of the Dr. Dolittle stories is on a U.S. tour. Mark Nootbaar of NPR station WDUQ says this version may be the closest yet to the vision of Hugh Lofting, creator of the ...

Talking with dogs, decoding whale sounds and interpreting bird calls could all be possible in the coming years as artificial intelligence applications learn to translate different creatures' ...

When my children were toddlers, our weekends included regular outings to the Baltimore zoo or aquarium. Once back from the zoo, we’d make our own. Our best no-cost amusement was imitating animal ...

Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Sandra Larson, who is 72, is an animal whisperer in Anna, 45 miles north of Dallas; she helps pet owners understand what ails ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubert G. Wells, a longtime Hollywood animal trainer whose many credits include the original Doctor Dolittle, Out of Africa, Babe: ...