Kai Pacha has always felt more comfortable and happier with animals than with humans, or at least she understands them better. It happened to her when she was a child, when she perceived herself as different from others. And it still happens to her now, at 54, and after almost three decades at the head of a reserve for the protection and conservation of pumas. "I don't want to be pejorative towards human beings, but in my case I am stronger when I recognise myself as an animal, because intuition, instinct, the body and what I imagine of the earth is much more useful to me than thinking, prejudging or having concepts, because I feel more limited there," she says.
This story was commissioned for the EL PAIS.
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