[Makoiyi]

Your best bet is to study the animals themselves and there ways, learn the hows and why's of the way they live there lives. Some research on the internet will give you a starting point.

Learn about there basic needs, what they eat, how they live, what habitat they need. This may be something there trying to communicate to you that something is upsetting this part of there lives.

Another good way to connect to them is to go and meditate in the area's they naturally live in, you can learn more connecting with them this way than you would imagine. Jot down what you get in a note book. If there not poisonous you could hold the shed skin of one carefully if you can find one whilst you meditate.

You can read all the books and interpretations in the world but that isn't going to give you the personal connection to them and the meanings you seek. After all its somebody else's interpretations your reading, better to do the ground work and form your own conclusions and opinions on it.