Puppet, I totally agree with you ! I usually felt a communication going on, and sometimes moreso with some horses than others. According to the horse book I mentioned, he believed that some animals are more receptive with some humans, and with other animals.
I know I felt it a lot with my TW mare. She would always be standing by the fence watching for me when I came home from town, and the other horses would be way out in the back pasture eating still.
I think the animals, like horses, and dogs especially; that we humans have been closely associated with and bonded with for thousands of years, have a better chance of communicating with us than one like a zebra, who has never been around humans.
Although, the video of the lady who was able to communicate with that wild black leopard would seem to prove that we can communicate with about any animal, once we learned how to do it.