So I was looking through The First Fowler while working on some articles for the wiki, and I can across something that stuck out to me: the different ways wolves have of speaking.
Now, the late (not so) great Redeye Garlackson and General Flox, along with Captain Blenk and the couple of wolves we've heard under their direct command, all speak English-or Rabbitese or Natalian or whatever it's supposed to be-in a pretty clear and distinct fashion, like most rabbit characters we've encountered. However, the wolves in The First Fowler-particularly the only ones to actually be given any sort of names, "Black Stripe" and Bant-have a rougher mode. They say things like "How here?" instead of "How'd you get here?" or "Seen this rabbit" instead of "I've seen this rabbit before." It's an interesting difference, and I can't help but wonder at the meaning behind it.
Could it be that the wolves have their own separate tongue, and they've just learned whatever rabbit speech is to varying degrees? Might it be an indication of class or rank, given that it's the higher up wolves who seem to speak better? Or is it like Dr. Zeiger, and the First Fowler wolves speak differently because of coming from a different region than wherever Redeye and the other wolf leaders are from?
Wasn’t there? Did not the Wolf Archer speak of it?