A specter has been haunting animal studies—the specter of metaphor. Through analyses that have made literary animal studies and metaphor better acquainted with each other, the present study has shown that this ghost can make space for the animal other in literary texts rather than scare it away. A metaphorical vehicle, despite its designation, does not simply transport a meaning that can replace it; the vehicle creates the meaning in its interaction with the tenor, as well as with the reader and with the actual world. Occasionally, such interactions invite literarity. Hospitality toward literarity has been the primary concern of this book. It is a hospitality I hope to make more pronounced in literary animal studies, in alignment with Jacques Derrida’s assertion that “thinking concerning the animal, if there is such a thing, derives from poetry” (2008, 7). In reverse, this book has derived from animals to think poetry—or literarity.