Blueskin's Race to Africa - Daniel Benshana

Blueskin is reincarnated into a Russian circus just as a meteorite crashes into a nearby forest. The havoc releases a golden tiger, a monkey, a gorilla and an elephant and they all race off to get back home.

Pursued by a hunter, joined by the alien whose ship had crashed and caused the havoc, and a man on the run, helped by the goat patrols in the mountains they use every skill and trick they have to escape capture.

And Blueskin learns there are animals everywhere being talked too endlessly by people in the hope they will talk back.