Nice little game, I enjoyed the theme with the animals.
Once I understood the rules I saw that the game wasn't actually too difficult, but I felt some things could've been better explained in the game description, like the board wrapping, the active effect affecting the movement direction (mentioned but unclear in the description), the enemy player also being able to reverse (but only once?) after knowing what you did in your turn, etc.
The main mechanics are actually fairly pleasant, and there are some interesting ideas around them; but some parts of the design, when I imagine how one would go about turning the game into a real board game, could have been polished a bit more.