Aerith jumped when Winston started talking, hand by her mouth. "Oh! He does!--You do!" she hastily corrected herself, because now that they have established the gorilla is intelligent, it'd be rude to talk about him and not to him. But my, that was an...oddly familiar-sounding voice. Strange.

"A...scientist?" Well, that's not so weird for a talking animal: Nanaki was certainly smart enough that he could study science. The question that springs immediately to mind for Aerith is: "What sort of scientist are you? Oh, and I'm Aerith."