Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for communicating via an electronic device for use in a mouth environment of an animal and resistant to damage from bodily fluids and pressure. The device can be pierced through a tongue, a lip, or a cheek, anchored to a tooth or a teeth of the mandible, or implanted in (or attached to an implant in) the maxilla or mandible. The device includes: a power device, which can power the apparatus, a memory storage device, which can store and recall data a communications subsystem, which communicates with one or more remote devices an output device, which creates stimulus directly or indirectly observable in the mouth environment an input device, which can create signals according to activity in the mouth environment and can send them to the memory storage device and/or processor and a processor coupled to the memory storage device, the communication subsystem, the output device and the input device.