"It can be used to carry other items, too," Jake suggested, gradually adjusting to having a conversation with two talking Disney lions. "It's what a lot of humans have been doing, using whatever glitters or shines as payment for food, medicine, and other things."

...A thought came to him out of nowhere. I think... Didn't Timon mention some of the lions' names besides Simba that one time through their communication over the journals? The awareness of that only flickered through his brown eyes. Nothing very noticeable.