Maria Coma-Santasusana is PhD Candidate at the Institut Français de Recherche sur l’Asie de Est at INALCO, France. She has a background in Social Anthropology and Tibetan Studies, and her research  interests include more-than-human relationships, multispecies ethnography, and environmental change. The findings in this article are based on field studies carried out between 2016 and 2018 in a pastoral district of Qinghai province, in north-eastern Tibet. In 2016, Maria was a Visiting Scholar at the College for Tibetan Studies at the Minzu University in China, and in 2022, a Research Fellow at the Social Anthropology Unit at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.