User blog comment:OnePieceNation/The New Kind/@comment-3119203-20120316235714/@comment-3119203-20120317033922

1) A possible reason these animals can talk without a Devil Fruit is due to their upbringing and unnatural intelligence. For example, Pappug was able to talk because he believed he was a human for part of his life.

2) I don't really worry about what is "natural" or not in One Piece. I like how some things make scientific sense, but given that there are quite a few of these "special cases" now, it is not really a special case. For example, how are Whitebeard, Kuma, and Moriah as big as they are? How was Whitebeard able to survive having half of his head torn off, how was Pell able to survive an explosion that could destroy everything in a 5km radius, etc.?

Sorry about my wording, I was a little rushed and I didn't know what to say. It is still hard to explain exactly what I think, but if I have a further explanation then I will add it.