Charles Foster is a renowned expert on animals and nature who holds a PhD in law/bioethics, is a veterinarian, and teaches medical law and ethics at University of Oxford. He’s written widely on evolutionary biology and natural history - but thinks something is typically missing from literature about the natural world.

Now, in BEING A BEAST: Adventures Across the Species Divide - Foster showcases his extraordinary effort to offer readers much more by chronicling his adventures of actually being a wild thing!! A lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the life of animals—human and other—BEING A BEAST: Adventures across the Species Divide mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing and memoir to cross the boundaries separating the species. It is an extraordinary journey full of thrills and surprises, humor and joy. And, ultimately, it is an inquiry into the human experience in our world, carried out by exploring the full range of the life around us.

To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the non-humans, the beasts. And to do that, he tried to be like them, choosing a badger, an otter, a fox, a deer, and a swift.

In an interview, Foster can share the gritty, down and dirty details of both his successes and failures in living the way animals do.