This book, which accompanies a BBC TV series of the same name, is about the interactions between man and animals as seen from the perspective of the animals themselves. It embraces human scavengers on the African plain, vampire bats in South-American caves, pigs in the living room in Papua New Guinea as well as tiny mites on the surface of our skin. The book aims to show how the lives of even the most urbanised city dwellers are inescapably linked to the animal kingdom. The author's previous books include Supersense.