Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
 Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality  (André Krebber, Mieke Roscher)....Pages 1-15
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
 Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology  (Matthew Chrulew)....Pages 19-40
 Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive?  (Hilda Kean)....Pages 41-55
 Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies  (Frederike Middelhoff)....Pages 57-79
Front Matter ....Pages 81-81
 A Dog’s Life: The Challenges and Possibilities of Animal Biography  (Aaron Skabelund)....Pages 83-102
 “We Know Them All”: Does It Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison?  (Markus Krzoska)....Pages 103-117
 Animal Life Stories; or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork  (Mira Shah)....Pages 119-137
Front Matter ....Pages 139-139
 Taxidermy’s Literary Biographies  (Susan McHugh)....Pages 141-160
 Caesar: The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity  (Daniel Wolf)....Pages 161-183
 Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog’s “Crocodile” at the End of the World  (Dominic O’Key)....Pages 185-203
Front Matter ....Pages 205-205
 The Elephant’s I: Looking for Abu’l Abbas  (Radhika Subramaniam)....Pages 207-226
 Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget  (Kim Stallwood)....Pages 227-242
 Online Animal (Auto-)Biographies: What Does It Mean When We “Give Animals a Voice?”  (Margo DeMello)....Pages 243-259
Back Matter ....Pages 261-266