“We know animals so poorly and don’t believe that they are so different!” But animals are not at all similar to each other: they get offended, get angry, rejoice, they can be faithful and caring. For a kind and observant person, meetings with desert inhabitants are always fraught with surprise, sometimes funny, and sometimes dangerous: the author is sure that one mountain goat deliberately dropped a stone on him - don’t occupy someone else’s watering hole! P. I. Marikovsky is convinced that if people learn to respect animals, then everyone will be able to tell entertaining stories about animals!