Alot of fiction I read involves gaining the gift of tongues, particularly from drinking dragons blood - so perhaps also their a potion out there (of they literally use a magical variety of the dragons blood herb or whatever the incense is made out of) and complaining because whilst there are animals that are gifted and clever a great many... Are not and their words are literally half the time food food? Mate? Or what's that what's that?

This has a mythical basis in both fairy tales and in Norse myths (the dragons blood thing).