Chapter 1 Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality

Chapter 2 Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology

Chapter 3 Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive?

Chapter 4 Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies

Chapter 5 A Dog’s Life: The Challenges and Possibilities of Animal Biography

Chapter 6 “We Know Them All”: Does It Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison?

Chapter 7 Animal Life Stories; or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork

Chapter 8 Taxidermy’s Literary Biographies

Chapter 9 Caesar: The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity

Chapter 10 Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog’s “Crocodile” at the End of the World

Chapter 11 The Elephant’s I: Looking for Abu’l Abbas

Chapter 13 Online Animal (Auto-)Biographies: What Does It Mean When We “Give Animals a Voice?”