I was re-watching Jim Carrey in the Ace Ventura films, and was amazed they still made me laugh so well. Looking at them though, and taking in the deliberate "suspension of disbelief" and rule-of-comedy context, I was still amazed at how easily Ace managed to interact with the animals and make them heed his words.

The second film, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, especially upped the ante on this [again, for the sake of ridiculousness and visual gags, admittedly]. Aside from his almost human conversations he had with his pet monkey Spike, Ace seemed capable of full on controlling [or at least negotiating with] these wild animals to do what he wanted them to do specifically. It made it seem like an almost supernatural power. This level of animal-empathy seemed to continue within the cartoon sequel series.

Is this ever fully explained?

Is there some canonical reason which shows how and why Ace is so good with animals?

Is it that he grew up around them and thus has no fear for them to react to, was he specially trained somewhere?

Or is this meant to be an "implied" quasi-supernatural ability of some kind?