As living forms of the world, we have in common that we meet and unfold through a multitude of sometimes unexpected and surprising relationships. The inter-species othemess (human-animal) leaves inspiring traces in us, crosses us and shapes us, questions what we are together within an event. The understanding of the singular experience of the encounter ventures into the realm of the sensitive, the non­visible, and cornes to tell us something about this other, the intentionality, the emergence of a We, especially when it is a wild animal. I defend here that the encounter is however possible because a living ethics is the heart of the experience. However, beyond the respect for this other, near or far, ethics fails when science imposes a reading of reality through statistical manipulation and reification of the living, thus allowing to arrange the world and thus to possess the world, leaving us alone.