Speak with Animals
You gain the ability to comprehend and verbally communicate with Beasts for the Duration. The knowledge and awareness of many Beasts is limited by their Intelligence, but at minimum, Beasts can give you information about nearby locations and Monsters, including whatever they can perceive or have perceived within the past day. You might be able to persuade a beast to perform a small favor for you, at the DM's discretion
I think their complaint is that they overestimate the advantage humans have over other animals in intelligence. Dogs, horses, birds, are going to have a higher level of thought than they expect - grey parrots have the intelligence of a 5 year old - but they think it's all fieldmice and ants.
