This was such an interesting book! I think it did a great job of blending human and animal stories, with a really lovely storytelling style. I learned a ton, and would absolutely pick this up as a gift for some of my family. I listened to the audiobook which had a wonderful reader, and there were even a few times where I found myself sitting in my car after I'd arrived somewhere because the story got intense enough that I had to know what happened next. Really good pair for John Vaillant's The Tiger.