AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction 1 The Shout: Bull Is Coming 2 The Companions: Portrait of Humans and Bovines 3 The Hyphen: Biographying the Improvisation 4 The Companionship: Fielding the Senses1 Birthing Cultures 1 Imagination 2 Recognition 3 Theatricality 4 Pedagogy 4.1 Naming 4.2 Milking 4.3 Nose Roping 5 Conclusion2 Pain and Its Correlates 1 Shifts and Turns of Pain 2 Normal and Deviant Behaviours 3 Aesthetic Immersion of Differential Bodies 4 Locus Standi 5 ConclusionInterlude 1: Enactment and Emergence of Consent3 Sporting the Bull 1 Selection and Grooming 2 Event and Moment 3 Animate and Articulate 4 Hugging and Falling 5 Conclusion4 Rethinking Play 1 Transcending Realms and Immanent Meanings 2 Decontextualised Enactments 3 Subjectivity of Spectatorship 4 ConclusionInterlude 2: Resonances of Play in Consent5 Death and Its Milieu 1 Can an Animal Die? 2 What Is It to Be-With a Dying Bovine? 3 How to Mourn a Dead Bovine? 4 Where Does It Happen? 5 Conclusion6 Extinction's Doppelgänger 1 Visions of Extinction 2 Hauntings in Companionship 3 Translating Conservation 4 ConclusionInterlude 3: Speculating Consent in the Future Worlds of Extinction7 Professing Mundanity 1 Modern Age Animals 2 Times of the Everyday Realities 3 Liveness of Beings 4 Bodies in Walk 5 ConclusionConclusionBibliographyIndex.