In a broken world, what can we gain by looking another animal in the eye? "Animal" is a sixpart, roundtheworld journey in search of an answer. In Episode 5, the writer Sam Anderson travels to an obscure memorial in rural Japan: the statue of the last Japanese wolf.


For photos and videos of Sam's journey to Japan, visit nytimes.com/animal (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/po...) .