Beast Speech

Regular
Communicate with any animal in the creature’s own “language.” The
amount of information exchanged depends on the animal’s intelligence;
no creature below the level of a bird is likely to know much of interest. An ant
may crawl over gold, but it knows only that the material is hard and inedible.
Each minute of the spell allows one question and answer.

Duration: 1 minute.
Cost: 4 to cast. 2 to maintain.
Prerequisite: Beast Call.

Item
Staff, wand, or jewelry.
Energy cost to create: 1,000 for an item that talks to one particular species,
or 4,000 for an item that can talk to any creature.