![]() ![]() Animal Lover: The eponymous doctor is kind to animals.Even very simple organisms without nervous systems like starfish and sea urchins can be multilingual and have meaningful conversations. Amplified Animal Aptitude: All animals have language and can understand abstract concepts. ![]() It was published in 1920 and now in the public domain and can be read here. The Story of Doctor Dolittle is the first book of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle series. ![]() Being flat-out broke, he borrows money and a ship and sails across the ocean, adventure waiting just around the corner One day he receives a message from a swallow begging him to travel to Africa to cure a disease epidemic among the monkeys. And despite his dire financial straits, he remains happy and carefree. His parrot, Polynesia, teaches Dolittle how to speak certain animal languages, which fascinates him. John Dolittle even drives his own spinster sister away when he adopts a crocodile, and he's left penniless with no one to take care of his house or manage his money. The only exception is the Cat's-meat-man (a man who sells meat for pets to eat, not a man who sells the meat of cats) who's never had any problem with animals. ![]() He is a highly competent and well-respected physician, but he is also somewhat of an animal hoarder, which drives away almost all of the paying human customers. John Dolittle is a doctor living in the small village, Puddleby note short for Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. ![]()
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