A living being that moves and senses. Its root is breath and soul — animal and animate are the same word.

A book of beasts — living things gathered and described, each as it actually lives. A bestiary does not cage its creatures; it tells how each one moves through the world.

Of the ranked naming system for living things — kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species. A structure of nested belonging.

A mark left by something's passing, and the following of such marks. Both make an absent thing knowable.