![]() Mosquitoes coming in at night, screaming for blood. Imagine the rats living in the walls, or in the roof. ![]() Understanding does not come easy, and the new comprehension of animal voices is more about a clear interpretation of body language and smells and sounds, a welter of information that’s just plain overwhelming, mostly because sufferers can’t turn it off. Zooflu, or zoanthropathy, has the basic flu symptoms but what it really does is allow people to understand and talk with animals.Īnyone who thinks this is bound to be delightful is in for a shock.įor the most part, it’s destabilising, both in the sheer scale of the new awareness and in the relationships formed-or transformed-by it. Not as we have all come to understand it, anyway. We’re all so sick of living it that the idea of reading it can hardly seem appealing, but the beauty of The Animals in that Country, by Australian writer Laura Jean McKay, is that this really isn’t a story about a pandemic. ![]() You have to feel for writers who were producing stories about pandemics before COVID-19 came along. ![]()
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