He doesn't just talk to the animals!

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!
In Doctor Dolittle, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “talking-animal world”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, exploitation, otherness, medicine, family.