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Animalia is the Latin term for the animal kingdom, and the most powerful animal in that diverse group of sentient beings is Homo sapiens. . . Nadeem Aslam tells the story of a puppy that revealed its wild nature. There were moments of anger, he writes, ''something electric spilling into the air from him, his teeth bare with hate for me or what I represented''. What did he, and all of us represent? Dominion over animalia, presumably. Displacement and destruction.--Introduction