critter

Be careful of fawns and other skittering critters as you drive.

It took three industrious college students to figure out a way to finally capture the elusive critter’s image.

Then the critters start to talk, and the spell is broken.

In a chapter on hedgehogs, Rundell writes of how these “delicate, erudite-looking” critters are threatened by something seemingly benign: the popular Guy Fawkes Day bonfires in England.

Then there are the changes that feel closer to a Cronenbergian freakout: curiously dense new tufts of back hair, slightly sharper teeth, a body count of dead critters each morning on the doorstep.