Abstract
At the park pond, people can see the ducks that they entangle with in feeding activities, which is one instance of a multispecies entanglement. Yet, more entanglements occur at the pond and, as this paper contends, some go beyond human capabilities for certainty. This paper sees the need to engage the human imagination as a quality people possess for knowing the multispecies world. It presents a fictional story, "Koepalem at Home," to illustrate the unseen at a pond. In doing so, the paper looks to advance ideas of posthumanist and multispecies leisure via scholarship of more-than-human places. This paper calls for new tactics for leisure places, both in practice and scholarship, that are about care and respect for all potential sentient organisms. To move beyond humancentrism is to know human limitations and engage with the qualities that enable people to advance awareness, care and respect, namely imagination, empathy, and compassion.