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After a while, with the parrot's help, the Doctor got to learn the language of the animals so well that he could talk to them himself and understand everything they said. Then he gave up being a people's doctor altogether.
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Polynesia is one of the pets of Doctor Dolittle. She is a parrot. She is fluent in hundreds of languages and taught the Doctor to speak Animal Language
Polynesia is hundreds of years old and has an amazing memory. She was a pet to the Doctor and taught him Animal Language. On the Doctor’s voyage to Africa she stayed there until the beginning of The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle when she flew back to Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. She proceeded to teach Tommy Stubbins Animal Language. After the events of the ...
•Polynesia is the only animal in the Doctor Dolittle series with the ability to communicate with humans.
•According to herself, Polynesia is one of few parrots to understand words they can say.
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.
Mar 19, 2016 · As you probably know, Doctor Dolittle was originally a series of books; in the first such story, from 1920, the Dr. learns to talk to animals from his pet parrot. Some of the film adaptations, if they follow the books closely enough, include this plot element in them.
Dec 29, 2016 · Doctor Dolittle's parrot, Polynesia, does a good job at talking and teaching him to talk to the animals who come to him for care.
The only patient he has left is the Cat’s-Meat Man, who suggests Dolittle give up being a human doctor and become an animal doctor instead. Inspired by this suggestion and encouraged by his parrot, Polynesia, Dolittle begins to study animal languages and soon becomes a renowned doctor among animals.
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