While animals are by no means dumb they dont think the same way we do contrary to what many popular television shows would have us believe animals have neither the theory of mind capabilities that humans have that is they are not conscious of what others are thinking nor the capacity for higher level reasoning. Animals have interesting thoughts but the only way they can convey them is by grunts shrieks and other vocalizations and by gestures hauser points out when humans evolved speech they liberated the kinds of thoughts nonhumans have. Buy do animals think 9780691126364 nhbs clive dl wynne princeton university press. Well the answer to this question is simple animals do have language their own language if anything animals do think with language but this is done with a language that we as humans dont understand animals communicate largely with sounds images and physical expression