André Krebber is Lecturer in Theory and History of Human-Animal Relations at the University of Kassel, Germany.

Mieke Roscher is Assistant Professor for Social and Cultural History and the History of Human-Animal Relations at the University of Kassel, Germany. 

1. Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality

André 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