This question is rather old but I always make up a new answer when I scroll by it >w<
Animals can in fact understand us humans and other animals. They show this by reactin to us with body movements and sounds. I don’t believe that they understand our language, but they understand our tone of voice and behavior. Aka, why we are able to train animals :)
B i have read the mocking bird but it's been a minute
Answer:
nasty : unpleasant because they are both synonyms for each other.
Explanation:
Hope this helped! xoxo