Cornelius took another bite of orange, trying carefully not to let the juice drip down his muzzle. It was juicy. And very tasty. Mmm. He could eat these all day.
"I wish Zira were here to try this. I just know she'd love it."
Then again, Zira would love most everything about this place. It was an animal psychiatrist's dream come true. To see the beasts that roamed her world finally make a society of their own. And a productive and technologically advanced society at that!
"Hmm? Oh. Some human I met named Peee-ter. Strange name for a human."
Not that humans had names where he was from. Except for the pet names that Zira gave them.
"You wouldn't know Colonel Taylor, would you? He was an as-tro-naut that I knew. He was human and he could speak. The only one I'd ever met. He said he was from a different galaxy or something."