Becoming Animals

We live in "multi-species" anthropology.

Do we understand the different voices around us? We hear them, but do we have capacities to know them?

What is the Idea of being for objects/animals other than Human beings? What are the different ways of being objects/animals suggest? Is there a way to understand these objects/animals? Do we have access to them? Is this access direct or mediated?

 “Each animal is a way of knowing the world” – Mark Bekoff

Speaking solely of animals now. How does one conceive the idea of ‘being’? Can one look at the idea of ‘being’ in the context of ecology? The notion that living beings contain different “ways of being”. All animals are inseparable from their collective formations (Packs,herds, groups) to which they belong to. Also, never a single animal shall be the lone example representative of that animal group. 

Animals only perceive things that have meaning for them. Moreover Animals construct meaning through actions, performances, sounds etc. According to Jakob von Uexküll, the animal has an Umwelt (environment), surrounding and enclosing it. Each animal has its own Umwelt, it is very much like the soap bubble and one soap bubble may enclose many others within it or be enclosed in other, larger bubbles. Unlike Leibniz's monads, these bubbles thrive on constant interaction within themselves. The umwelt is not something which is a priori, but rather produced by the animal through its constant functioning and interaction of its body, sensory and intuition within itself and the objects around it. The species evolve in relation to their environment and other species.

Does this hold true to different objects around us?

How does one think about non-anthropocentric ecology?