Based on the hypothesis that from a certain historical moment the animal was understood as the other of the human, Vida animal intends to refute it, and for this it displays images and stories in which the animal and the human stick together until they become indistinguishable. . In this way, a “zoopoetics” is being woven through which filmmakers, photographers and writers walk, but also thinkers from different traditions and times, contradicting not only the borders between species but also between different geographies, cultural and artistic practices. An erudite, precise and necessary book, but at the same time refreshing, which is read as if we were watching a movie and which, as it leads us to think of the human outside the limits of humanism, also stretches the possibilities of reading to that leads us to the animal, to come to understand it as an aesthetic device.