Mark Twain 
What Stumped the Blue Jays 

‘What Stumped the Blue Jays’ uses animal symbolism to represent human ignorance.
‘Animals talk to each other, of course. There can be no question about that; but I suppose there are very few people who can understand them. I never knew but one man who could’. 

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),   known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.