One interesting implication of this is that language is not something separate in the brain. It is a higher level abstraction over the existing processes and r

One interesting implication of this is that language is not something separate in the brain. It is a higher level abstraction over the existing processes and reuses all of the existing machinery. So our conception of the word tree would translate to other animals brains directly, they just lack the higher level abstractions of language, consciousness, and understanding that others think and communicate. So the additional nodes collected under the “tree” node (or nodes) would be cleared and repurposed because it’s useless information to the other animal.