How to Speak to Animals in Mass Effect

I've never seen that clip of like the squirrel that you can kick and just like kick against the tree and it basically explodes. I have no choice in the matter when it came to that. My character is like, that's what's going to happen. Oh, just the dark urge just go straight in for it. And I'm almost certain during that part because it was quite early on in my playthrough. But at the moment, I've got my like three companions sent. You could actually probably never find one or two of these companions if you don't know where to get it. It's like you have your team and you can pick them in and out as you want for missions