It was this moment that the furry animal had been watching for.

The animals stirred and rustled, tending to their own lives, watching her with only half an eye now.

The animals watched her calmly through the netting or the bars.

"Now tell those two other animals to watch this carefully," said Terl.

And all the other animals would simply stand around and watch, unable to draw any lessons for themselves from what was going on.

So, she decided, animals in the zoo watch their human visitors.

The animal watched it travel across the floor and yawned.

When I was left to die by those bandits, this animal came and watched me.

After a while an animal - a deer perhaps - would appear from out of the trees and watch him cautiously.

How could his repeating a name mean anything to the animals still watching him so intently that their stare was daunting?