Devero stops about half a step later, looking between the girl and the animal. "I-- I don't know!" he admits. (He is really not an animals guy.)

But getting squirrely about it isn't an option when he's got a kid with him. So he takes a deep breath and says, "Listen, why don't you wait here, while I go a little closer and see what it does."

Right now all it's really doing is watching them intently. When neither of them moves immediately, it calls again.