Published in the year in which Salbitani closed the sequence Il punto di vista del topo, begun in 1986, the volume gathers the encounters with animals that had run through his work since he founded the School of Photography in Nature at Mogginano in 1986 and began teaching in the woods. The extraordinary of the title is not the exotic: it is what an animal becomes when it is met at its own height and on its own ground, rather than looked at from above.