The world would be such a better place if we would not turn off this language in our own heads.

I don't know how much is fanciful, but I do know, because I have done it myself, that wild animals can sense your attitude.
I used sometimes to go into the bush, wearing hardly anything, and walk barefooted through it. I could pass very close to herds of grazing wildebeeste, zebra or deer and provided I kept my mind blank, and only glanced at them discreetly, they would keep a watchful eye on me but stay where they were.
If, instead, I looked at them intently, they would move away before I even got close.
I have even stayed quiet and unthreatening until a wild Wart Hog allowed me to scratch/stroke its forehead. It gave me quite a thrill that I was trusted.