I’ve run into some odd explanations for that, such as, “Maybe animals back then could walk and talk.” That sort of speculation is aimed at preserving an overliteralized view of the text,
Hold on, you go to crazy places with your ideas of what the Bible says and you are going to accuse others of being overliteral? Also wouldn't the story of Baalim's donkey lend creedence to the idea animals could speak. Makes more sense than "oh, she knew it was a divine being."
