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Kai Pacha, cougar woman
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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