Animal Kinship provides a nearly psychic links with animals. This Kai Discipline allows Lone Wolf to communicate with animal-intelligence wildlife and domestic creatures, as well as form a bond with more sapient ones, such as Noodnics. Though it's not often used, this discipline can be surprisingly useful.
The Magnakai and Grand Master versions of this discipline are Animal Control and Animal Mastery.
Animal Kinship is referenced a total of 22 times in the books.
| Book | Times |
| Flight from the Dark | 3 |
| Fire on the Water | 4 |
| The Caverns of Kalte | 6 |
| The Chasm of Doom | 4 |
| Shadow on the Sand | 5 |