An animal tries to eat your ear because it mistakes it for its feed. Maybe you shouldn't put your ears so close to the animal food — there's nothing to listen to down there besides wet, slobbery chewing sounds anyway.

You're walking by one of the animal pens with some feed when you hear, "Ay, sir (えさ)! Ay, sir! Bring some of that animal food over here please." Did an animal just… talk to you?