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1. Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality Andr Krebber and Mieke Roscher Explorations 2. Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler, and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology Matthew Chrulew 3. Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive? Hilda Kean 4. Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies Frederike Middelhoff Reflections 5. A Dog’s Life: The Challenges and Promise of Animal Biography Aaron Skabelund 6. “We Know Them All” – Does it Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison? Markus Krzoska 7. Animal Life Stories; Or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork Mira Shah Constructions 8. Taxidermy’s Literary Biographies Susan McHugh 9. Caesar – The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity Daniel Wolf 10. Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog’s “Crocodile” at the End of the World Dominic O’Key Experiments 11. The Elephant’s I: Looking for Abu’l Abbas Radhika Subramaniam 12. Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget Kim Stallwood 13. Online Animal (Auto-)Biographies: What Does it Mean When We “Give Animals a Voice”? Margo DeMello