Imposters, as the contributions to this volume show, are promising?figures to think with. Such thinking can take multiple forms and deliver?various kinds of pay-offs for how we make sense of socio-material?relations, of society. This chapter is about non-human imposters.?The pay-off it aims to deliver comes from putting these ‘imitations?of something cared about’ at the centre of the analysis, as protagonists?rather than receptacles or intermediaries of the action. Doing this?allows us to let them teach us – chiefly about two things: (1) what, in a?given setting, is valued, and (2) how deception and its interception are?distributed across ever-changing socio-material alliances.