Index
A
Ahmed, Sara, 317
Allison, Leanne, 245
alpacas, 14, 318; as camelid species, 317, 323; colours and patterns of, 324; as domesticated, 323–24; throughout South America, 320; in the US, 330–31; as water dependent, 324; wool of, 324; in zoos, 324. See also camelids
American Bee Journal, 52, 62, 65
American Blue Cross Society, 142
American foulbrood (AFB): caused by, 59; control efforts, 63; destructive potential of, 59; hardiness of spores of, 61–62; impact on bee colonies, 59, 61; infections in 1880s and 1890s, 62; outbreak in 1870s of, 59; response to, 62; spread of, 53; virulence of, 63
American Journal of Agriculture and Science, 166–67
American Philosophical Society (APS), 161–64; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 163
Anders, Frank L., 82
Andrews, Thomas G., 51; Killing for Coal, 51
animal advocacy movements, 91, 94
animal agency, 7–8, 25–26, 351; evidence of, 186, 316, 351–52; methodological challenges of, 15, 26; limited usefulness of questions of, 26, 49
animal bodies: in art production, 341; of bees, 53–54, 58, 67; of dolphins, 201; and embodied methodology, 23–24, 28–29, 41; exhibiting, 375; of greyhounds, 93, 108; as historical artifacts, 374; of horses, 34, 38, 41; and labour, 51, 348–49; of llamas, 317, 329; materiality of, 11, 14; and pigments, 340; reading of as sources, 8–9, 27, 67; and visual imagery, 340, 350
“Animal City” Spatial History Lab project, 293, 295, 309, 311
animal cruelty: and anti–animal cruelty, 137, 141, 146–48; and anti-cruelty advocates, 138; and anti–cruelty laws, 100, 305; and anti-steel trap leagues, 137, 142; in antivisection literature, 190; in the fur trade, 137–38, 144, 146; and horses, 81. See also animal rights; antivivisection movement; Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCAs)
animal health care, 117–19, 127–28, 131–32. See also animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinarians; veterinary medicine
animal health knowledge, 117–19, 121, 127, 131. See also animal health care; animal health manuals; veterinarians; veterinary medicine
animal health manuals, 12, 117–20, 122, 126–27, 131–32. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; veterinarians; veterinary medicine
animal historians: methods and challenges of, 5, 8–11, 13–15, 37, 305, 397; and other subfields of history, 22, 292, 373, 390; questions faced by, 3, 75–76; studying the recent past, 91, 112; as similar to other historians, 227–28. See also animal history
animal history: and anthropocentric sources, 120, 269, 284–85; and applying an “animal lens,” 269–70, 283; and art history, 14, 340, 352–53; as emotionally exhausting, 310–11; field of, 3–4, 11, 15, 292, 361, 390, 399; locational data as a source for, 239, 263; methodological challenges of, 3–5, 9–10, 15, 200, 214, 269; methods of, 8-9, 13, 85, 239, 269; and oral history, 27, 29, 41, 97, 214; risks of, 8, 15, 73–74; scholarship, 293, 340;
animal history (continued) shortcomings of, 73–75, 284; so-called impossibility of, 4, 235; sources on, 236, 293–95, 305–6; urban, 269–70, 279, 283; and visual culture, 339–40, 342, 350, 353; writing of, 8, 341. See also animal historians
animal labour: and ANIMALIA exhibit, 364; and animal workers, 347–50; history of, 50–51; and honeybees, 12, 49–52, 66, 69; and horses, 279, 283, 341; and llamas, 329, 331; and oxen, 350–51; and Welland Canals, 347, 350–51; and working conditions, 50–51
animal protectors, 139–40, 142, 145, 147
animal rights: advocacy, 91; as a philosophy, 148; activists and groups, 148, 213
animal traps: and trappers, 138, 140, 143–44, 146–47; anti-trapping campaigns, 148; anti-trapping literature, 146–47; leghold traps, 137, 140–43, 145, 147–48. See also animal cruelty
ANIMALIA exhibit, 3, 5, 357–60, 367, 369–70; collections of, 14, 365–66; animals featured in, 363–64; development of, 359, 362–63 themes of, 364, 369. See also Archives of Ontario
Annesley, Lady Clare, 141
antelopes. See bluebucks
anthropomorphism, 74, 148, 398–99; pitfalls of 10, 15; and animal stories, 142, 148–50; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 213
antivivisection movement, 13, 176, 186, 188, 190–91; Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society, 188, 190; Ottawa Anti-Vivisection Society, 190. See also vivisection
apiaries, 58–61; and apiarists, 57, 66
archives: as repositories of evidence, 3, 361; animal bodies as archives, 23–24, 28, 36–38, 41, 93
— animals in: absence of, 138, 161; hidden nature of, 14, 138, 160, 175, 293; marginal nature of, 5, 316, 389; looking for, 7, 9, 176, 227, 345–47
creating one’s own archives, 13, 95, 112; digital archives, 7, 12, 280; as human constructs 5, 10, 74, 76, 227; as privileging humans and the powerful, 75–76, 235, 346; as records of human agency, 92, 112; rural public archives, 120–21, 123, 126, 129; traditional archives, 12, 389, 218; voices not readily apparent in, 9, 92. See also Archives of Ontario
Archives of Ontario: ANIMALIA exhibit, 3, 5, 358; collections of, 14, 359, 361–63; and educational programming, 359–61; exhibit team, 360, 362, 364, 367, 370; as government institution, 359, 363, 370; Helen McClung Exhibit Area, 360; and interactive activities, 367, 369; as memory institution, 359, 363; outreach program at, 359; past exhibits at, 357, 360; and York University, 360–61. See also archives
Argent, Gala, 29
art history, 339–40; methodologies, 340; and portraiture, 371–73, 383–84
Audubon Society, 140
B
Barnum, P. T., 328
Battle of the Greasy Grass, 75, 82–83, 85
bears, 13, 15, 21, 52; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 357, 363; and bear trackers, 239, 246; danger of roads to, 242–43; of the eastern slopes [Rocky Mountains], 241–42, 244, 255, 261–63; food sources of 241–43, 249; foraging of, 241–42, 254;
— grizzly bears: classified as endangered, 236–37; of the eastern slopes, 237, 241–42; female, 239, 242, 244, 248–49; F30, 246–49, 252–53, 258, 260–61; F46, 246, 248–49; as individuals, 249, 255; locational data on, 237–38, 249, 252; movements of, 14, 253; survival rates of, 244
and grizzly country, 240–41, 258, 261; habitats of, 238, 241–42; movements of, 239,
242–44, 249, 252; near golf courses, 241–42, 244; near railways, 241, 243–44; near ski runs, 241–42, 244; relationships among, 48–49; tracking of, 237, 253, 255. See also Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project
beekeepers, 50, 66–67; and “reading” the bodies of bees, 53, 69; and bee forage, 52, 54, 68; and working environments for bees, 51–53; challenges of, 52–53; impact of American foulbrood on, 53, 65; livelihood of, 50, 54; and bee hives, 52, 55; records of, 52, 54, 68; responses to bee diseases by, 53, 61–63. See also honeybees
bees. See honeybees
Bekoff, Marc, 245
Bell, Dr. George, 120, 129–32; Veterinary Medical Wonder, 120, 129, 131
belt tackling, 127–28. See also horses
Benteen, Frederick, 83
Berger, John, 138, 287; “Why Look at Animals?,” 287
Bergh, Henry, 305
Bert, Dr. F. A., 189
birds, 15, 376–78, 391; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 357, 363
Blackfish [film], 212
bluebucks: earliest known full-body image of, 380; extinction history of, 378, 384; as extinct species, 378–79, 383; metadata on, 380; at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 371, 375, 377, 382–83; at Naturalis, 381–82; at Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, 376; portraits of, 375–76, 379, 381, 383; specimens of, 371, 380–81, 383; as victim of colonization, 376
Boisseron, Bénédicte, 323
Bökönyi, Sándor, 40
Bonnell, Jennifer: and Roger Simon, 384
Borst, Charlotte, 118
Boulton, Henry Carew, 273
Boulton, William Somerville, 272–73; Atlas of the City of Toronto and Vicinity, 272
Brannaman, Buck, 77
Breck, Major Edward, 142
Brooks, J. Chadwick, 146
Brownell, Franklin, 343–46, 350, 352; Frozen Meat, Byward Market, 343
Bryan, William Jennings, 329
Bucephalus (horse), 23
Bucklin Banner, 223
buffaloberries (Shepherdia canadensis): as food source for bears, 241–42, 260. See also bears
Burghardt, Gordon, 245
butchering, 270–71; and butcher shops, 275–78, 282, 285–86; and butchered meats, 270–71, 275, 277, 285; and butchers, 271, 277, 295–96; and slaughterhouses, 292–93, 296, 299, 302–6, 309, 370
C
camelids, 317, 323; and animal labour, 331; as social animals, 324; domestication of, 325; features of, 323; histories of, 317; interbreeding of, 324; products of, 327–28; taxonomic order of, 323; wild, 328. See also alpacas; camels; guanacos; llamas; vicuñas
camels, 218, 220–21, 324, 329. See also camelids
Campbell, Colleen: “Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bears: Each One is Sacred” [exhibit], 257, 259, 262
Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society, 188, 190. See also antivivisection movement
Cartwright, R. G., 82
Castle, William E., 395; The Genetics of Domestic Rabbits: A Manual for Students of Mammalian Genetics, 395
cats, 107, 110, 178, 363, 370; domestic, 1–2
cetaceans, 15, 199–200, 202, 209, 213
Cheyenne (Nation), 82
circuses, 218–20; Al G. Barnes Circus, 223–24; historians of, 221–22; Howe’s Great London Circus, 218, 222; M. L. Clark and Son’s Circus, 218–19, 222–23, 228; Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center, 225; Sells Floto Circus, 217
Clark, Mack Loren, 218–19, 221, 223
Coates, Benjamin, 162
Coffey, Wallace, 80
colts. see horses
Comanche: horsemanship, 78–81; Nation, 75, 81; people, 79–80; teachings, 76, 79; wild horse capture, 75, 79–81
Conibear, Frank, 147
Connaught Laboratories, 7, 13, 176–78; Barton Avenue stable of, 176–77; guinea pigs at, 180–82; history of, 176; mice at, 182; public relations campaigns of, 182–83, 190;
Connaught Laboratories (continued) publications of, 176, 180, 182, 186, 192; scientists at, 181, 189–90
contextual analysis, 345–46; relationship to visual analysis, 345
Cook, A. J., 63
Corbain, Alain, 29
Cottingham, Ian, 282
Cowie, Helen, 328
cows, 291–94, 297, 299–300, 306, 311; Two-Cow limit, 299–300
Cox, Lisa, 119
Craighead, Frank and John, 238, 245
critical empathy, 245, 263. See also historical empathy
Crook, George, 83
Csordas, Thomas, 30
Custer, George Armstrong, 82–84
D
dairy industry, 299, 302; and milk dealers, 294, 297–98; farms and farmers, 297, 299; production, 299
Darwin, Charles, 20, 327, 393–94; The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 393
de Kruif, Paul, 189; Microbe Hunters, 189
Denison, Flora Macdonald, 188
Deyohahá:ge, 357, 366. See also The Indigenous Knowledge Centre
digital archives, 280
digital history scholarship, 286, 292, 309–11; digital skills and tools for, 270, 285–87
digital mapping and visualization, 291, 295–96, 302, 306, 309–11
digital sources, 10, 94, 96, 273, 285–86; and dogs, 95, 97, 101–2, 106, 111; and ethical considerations, 95, 97; as ephemeral sources, 94, 96; born-digital sources, 94, 97
digitization projects, 270, 273, 279–80, 284
digitized sources, 270, 277, 279–80, 284–86, 341
diphtheria, 13
dogs: adopters of, 99, 101–2, 104–5, 108–11; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 363, 367–69; behaviour of, 109, 111; bodies of as archives, 93; difficulty finding sources documenting the lives of, 92; dog tracks, 96–103, 111;
— dog-racing industry, 96–100, 102, 104–5; and anti-racing groups, 94, 100, 105; decline of, 98, 101; ties to organized crime, 98
— greyhounds, 12, 91–92; and digital sources, 95, 97; behaviour of, 105, 107–8, 110; betting on, 97–98; breeding, 92–94, 97–102, 104, 111; destruction of, 99–100, 102; history of, 97–98; and crates, 103–4, 108–10; lineages, 92, 101; needs of, 94, 106; racing, 92, 94, 98, 111; transition to family life, 94, 97, 101–2, 105–11
and kennel operators, 100, 102–3, 105; as laboratory animals, 190–91; needs of, 92; pit bulls, 91; puppies, 102; sighthounds, 97; trainers of, 91, 93–94
dolphins, 15; bottlenose dolphins, 13; and development of sonar, 201–2; and humans, 200–1; and US Navy research, 201; as pests, 201; scientific observation of, 201, 209, 212; military applications of, 202. See also Tuffy (dolphin)
The Dolphins That Joined the Navy [film], 204
domestication: and acclimatization, 329; as process and idea, 325, 329
Donovan, H. B., 180
Dorrance, Tom, 77
Duffield, Deborah: and Sam Ridgway, 204; and Tuffy (dolphin), 204–6, 214; as distinguished marine mammalogist, 205
E
Eastern Slopes Grizzly Bear Project (ESGBP), 13–14, 237–39, 243–46, 248, 254, 263; beginning of, 253; conclusions of, 241; locational data generated by, 238, 241, 244, 261–62; observations of, 243–44. See also bears
elephants, 13, 15; from Assam, 228; circus elephants, 13; in classical times, 218; Diamond, 224; and elephant keepers, 218; Mena, 218–22, 228; Princess Alice, 217–18, 227; records of, 217; sold by Carl Hagenbeck, 228. See also Ned (elephant); Tusko (elephant)
Ellard, Roland, 178
Elliot, Devon, 286
Elliott, Henry Wood, 145
embodied methodology, 23–24, 28. See also animal bodies,
Emmons, Ebeneezer, 168; Agriculture of New-York, 168
entanglement: as concept in animal studies, 237, 263; between human and other species, 256, 258
entomologists, 53, 65–66, 157–58, 168–69; advocacy for insecticides by, 64; records of, 67; responses to diseases by, 53, 61; and Cecidomyia culmicola, 169; and Margaretta Hare Morris, 161, 163, 166–69; and the Hessian fly, 158, 169
environmental history, 9, 51, 75; and environmental historians, 38, 373, 382
Evans, Bill, 202
Evans, Bryant, 207
extinction, 41, 396; representations of, 371, 374, 383-84
F
farmers, 121–22, 124; and animal health care, 124–28, 130–32; and animal health manuals, 118; limited access to veterinary medicine, 122; understanding of animal anatomy, 124
Felt, Ephraim Porter, 168
Ferguson, Lynne, 77
Fisher, James, 119
Fiske, Minnie, 142
Fitzgerald, John G., 176, 180, 183, 186, 189–90
flies: Cecidomyia culmicola, 166, 168–69; Cecidomyia culmicola as misidentified Hessian fly, 159–60, 168; Hessian flies, 157–59, 161–64; larvae of, 158, 167; laying eggs, 157, 160, 163–65, 167; pupa of, 157, 166–67; wheat flies, 161, 166
Flores, Dan, 75
Florida Historical Society, 92
Flury, Henry, 142; “Lady in Furs,” 142
Ford, Glenn, 204; in The Dolphins That Joined the Navy, 204
Franits, Wayne, 375
fur industry, 138; critics, 138–39, 148; and anti-fur movement, 137–38, 148; fashion, 139–40, 143, 150; and fur boycotts, 137, 142; and fur-bearing animals, 139; furriers, 139, 145; growth of, 148; promoters, 138–39, 143, 148
G
Gade, Daniel, 327
Gagne, Raymond J., 169; The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, 169
Gaynor, Andrea, 9
gender: gender-based discrimination, 161–62, 168–69, 323; history of, 13, 26, 390. See also women
Gentile, John, 148
Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 7, 9, 14, 236; tracking bears with, 262; visualizing locational data with, 241, 262; and ArcGIS Online, 273, 275, 279, 282–84, 286, 294, 296; and digitized sources, 270, 286; and georeferencing, 273, 284; for animal history, 269, 286–87; potential for the use of, 269–71, 275, 279, 283–84, 287; spatial analysis using, 269–70, 275, 277, 283; limits of, 283, 287; visualizations, 270, 273, 277, 282–84, 286–87; Web-based, 270, 273
Gibeau, Mike, 254
Gide, Andre, 23
The Globe [Toronto], 178, 181–82
Godoy, Juan, 327
Goodnight, Thomas, 138
Gray, John S., 83
The Great Epizootic (of 1872–73), 270, 279–83, 286
Grewcock, Duncan, 375
Greyhound Racing Record, 93
greyhounds. See dogs
grizzly bears. See bears
Grumm-Grzhimaylo brothers, 37
guanacos, 14, 318, 325–26; as arid adapted, 324; as camelid species, 317, 323;
guanacos (continued) throughout South America, 321, 332. See also camelids
guinea pigs, 7, 13; breeders of, 179–80, 182; and cavies, 179–80; at Connaught Laboratories, 176, 178–82, 186; descriptions of, 183, 186; and diphtheria, 176, 183, 189; and their disappearance from records, 175, 183, 186–87, 191–92; as docile, 178–79, 190; as an expendable species, 189–91; as laboratory animals, 175–78, 180–83, 186, 191–92; as pets, 176, 178–79; prices of, 180–81; reproduction of, 180, 182; and vivisection, 187–88; and Voges holder, 186–87
H
Hagenbeck, Carl, 218, 221, 228
Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 166
Hämäläinen, Pekka, 75
Harris, Thaddeus William, 163–64, 166–68; A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, 168; Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, 164
Healy, Richard, 282
Hein, Hilde, 374
Herrick, Edward Claudius, 163–64, 167
Hessian fly. See flies
historical empathy, 8–10. See also critical empathy
Hoare, Philip, 212
Homquist, Captain Carl O., 207
honeybees, 12, 15; as agricultural producers, 54, 67; behaviour of, 53–54, 67, 69; declining forage sources of, 56–57, 68–69; and exposure to disease, 59, 67; foraging of, 52, 54; health, 12, 50, 54, 67; and insecticide poisoning, 63, 65, 67–68; keepers of, 50; labour of, 12, 49–50, 52, 66, 69; and risks of foraging, 53, 63–64, 67–68; robbing other colonies, 59, 62–63; as workers, 49–50, 67; working environments of, 52–53, 59, 65–66, 68
Hornaday, William T., 145
horses: agency of, 25–26, 30; in ANIMALIA exhibit, 363; Arab, 34; in art history, 339, 343–44; belt tackling of, 127–28;
— bodies of, 23–24, 34, 41; as archives, 27–29, 32–33, 36–38
body language of, 29–32; branding of, 33–34; centring in history of, 12, 79, 84–85; colts, 33, 77; at Connaught Laboratories, 176–77, 182–83; dung of, 35–36; and domestication, 39, 80; domestic horses, 20–21, 37, 39; as expert communicators, 76, 78, 85; as fundamentally relational, 76–77, 85; gelding (castrating) of, 25, 33–34, 41, 127; and the Great Epizootic, 279–80, 282–83; hair of, 36, 41; and horse-centred analysis, 75–76, 82, 85; and horse-human interactions, 12, 76–77, 79–80, 82–85; mares, 32, 35; Mongolian horses, 30, 32, 34, 37, 39, 42; Przewalski’s horse, 19, 20–21, 40–41; riding of, 26, 28–31, 40–41; stallions, 32, 35, 40–41; Thoroughbreds, 34; trainers of, 77, 80; volition of, 73, 75–76, 78–79, 82, 85; wild horses, 21, 40–41; wild vs domesticated, 41–42; and urban transportation, 270, 280, 283; labour of, 341, 347. See also takhis
Howell, Philip, 279
Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), 137–38, 140, 145–47, 149
humane societies, 99, 105; Ottawa Humane Society, 345; Toronto Humane Society, 147
Humphrey, Caroline, 33
Hunt, Ray, 77
hybridization, 395–97; and beefalo, 396; and rabbit-hare hybrids, 394–95
I
Indigenous knowledge, 12, 22, 41, 85; horsemanship, 75; dismissed, 74–75; failure to account for, 85; in a horse-centred analysis, 76; preservation of, 366
The Indigenous Knowledge Centre, 357, 366
Ingram, Darcy, 187
Internet Archive, 112
Isenberg, Andrew, 75
J
James, Chris, 80
John Lilly, 202; Man and Dolphin, 202
Johnston, Patricia, 345
Jones, Ryan Tucker, 262
Jones, Susan, 119
Jørgensen, Finn Arne, 382
K
Kansas State Archives, 92. See also archives
Kay, Sarah, 341
Kearny, Steven, 83; The Cavalry Manual, 83
Kenny, Keith, 318
Kheraj, Sean: animal history seminar at York, 361
Khustain Nuruu National Park, 20–21
Kiefer, J. J., 168
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 74
Kingston College of Veterinarians, 129
Klingle, Matthew, 191
Knight, Dr. A. P., 130
Koblin, Aaron, 239; “Flight Patterns,” 239, 241
Kramer, Max, 201
kulans. See khulans,
L
Lakota: language, 73; Nation, 73, 82; people, 73; teachings, 73–74
Laut, Agnes C., 144–45, 147; The Fur Trade of America, 144
Lederer, Susan, 191
Lengkeek, Peter, 77
Leopold, Aldo, 238
LeSueur, Charles Alexandre, 159, 165, 167
Levi-Strauss, Claude, 24
Liverant, Bettina, 139
llamas: agency of, 317; ancestry of, 323; Andean homeland of, 325; and animal labour, 331; as arid adapted, 324; as camelid species, 317, 323; colours and patterns of, 324; and concept of diaspora, 14; and domesticated, 323–24; entanglement with humans, 318; and Europeans, 326, 328; as gifts, 329; in global circulation, 315–18, 328–29, 332; habitats of, 317; mummies of, 323; products of, 327; ritual role of, 326; throughout South America, 319; in the US, 330–31; wool of, 317, 324; in zoos, 324, 328. See also Spook (llama)
London Correspondence School, 117, 120, 126, 129; The Veterinary Science, 120, 126, 128
London Veterinary Correspondence School. See London Correspondence School
Long, William J., 142
M
Mackenzie, William Lyon, 271
Manwood, John, 391; Treatise of the Forest Laws, 391
Marchal, Paul, 168
Marengo (horse), 23
Marra, Kim, 31
Marx, Karl, 26
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, 346; The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, 346
Matlass, David, 140
McLean, William B., 202
McShane, Clay, 51
Mendes, Jeremy, 245
Micklethwaite, F. W., 6
Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 342
Mitchell, W. J. T., 352–53; What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images, 352
Mizelle, Brett, 345
Möllhausen, Balduin, 79–81; Diary of the Mississippi, 79
Mongolia, 22–23, 29, 31; horse as national emblem of, 33; steppes of, 19; horse culture of, 3
Moore, Katherine, 327
Morris, David Copland, 149
Morris, Margaretta Hare, 13, 157–69; Asa Fitch, 166–67; and Cecidomyia culmicola, 169; and fly specimens, 164–67; as scientific artist, 161; of unknown fly by, 160–61, 164–66; erasures of, 160–61, 164, 169; reactions to findings of, 162–64, 166–69
Moses Brings Plenty, 77
Muir, John, 149; Stickeen, 149
Murie, Adolph, 238
museums: Royal Ontario Museum, 357, 367; Whyte Museum, 262; C. A. V. Barker Museum of Canadian Veterinary History, 126; Circus World Museum, 225; American Museum of Natural History, 377, 399; Horniman Museum and Gallery, 377; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), 371–72, 374–76, 378–79, 383; natural history museums, 373–74, 376, 383–84; Naturalis, 374, 379–82; Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 374, 376; Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (NRM), 374, 376–79, 382; Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, 378
N
Nadasdy, Paul, 11
Nance, Susan: 236; The Historical Animal, 5
National Greyhound Association (NGA), 93, 95, 97–102, 105–7, 109, 111
National Greyhound Hall of Fame, 92–93
National Sporting Library, 92
Nawa, Kohei, 381
Ned (elephant), 218; background of, 218–19, 222; and circus life, 220, 228; death of, 229; final years of, 228–29; historical records of, 220–21; joining Al G. Barnes Circus, 224; and Mena, 219–22, 228; name changed to Tusko, 224; stories of, 222, 227, 229–30; as Tusko, 224, 226–29; at Woodland Park Zoo, 229. See also elephants; Tusko (elephant)
New York Times, 137, 141–42, 212, 224
New York Women’s League for Animals, 142
Nye, Elwood, 83
O
O’Gorman, Emily, 9
Ogden, Laura, 318
Olson, Kathryn, 138
Ontario Beekeeping Association (OBA), 52, 56, 62, 65
Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, 65; An Act for the Further Protection of Bees, 65
Ontario Veterinary Association, 118
Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), 117–18, 120–21, 129, 131
Ontario Veterinary Medical Association, 126
Ontario Veterinary Practice Board, 129
oral history: and animal history, 27, 29, 41, 97, 214; limitations of, 9, 13; and Indigenous knowledge, 22; and oral historians, 27, 31, 96; and oral tradition, 34; of horses, 22, 41
Ottawa Anti-Vivisection Society, 190. See also antivivisection movement
Ottawa Humane Society, 345
Owens, Trevor, 96
Oxford Handbook on the History of Medicine, 175
P
Padilla, Thomas, 96
Pahdopony, Juanita, 80
Pasteur Laboratories, 180
Patterson, Penny, 398
Pearson, Susan, 8
Pellett, Frank C., 56
Pepperberg, Irene, 398
Philo, Chris, 269
Pigafetta, Antonio, 326
pigs, 292–93, 297, 306, 344–46
Pliny the Elder, 200
Powell, E. Alexander, 141
Przewalski, Nikołaj, 19
Przewalski’s horse, 19, 20–21, 40–41. See also takhis
Puente, Javier, 329
R
rabbits, 142, 144, 391–93, 395
racial discrimination: 161, 169, 323
Rader, Karen, 182
radio-telemetry, 254; data, 239, 242, 249; equipment, 239; locating bears with, 241, 246, 253; as method of locating animals, 238; technology, 238
Reaves, John, 208
Reno, Marcus, 82
Retired Greyhounds as Pets (ReGAP), 107–8
Ridgway, Sam, 202; and Deborah Duffield, 204; Dolphin Doctor, 213; Mammals of the Sea, 212; and Tuffy (dolphin), 203–6, 209–10, 213–14; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 202, 212
Ritvo, Harriet: The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, 4, 389
Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center, 225
Roberts, Charles G. D., 245
Roberts, G. D., 142
Robichaud, Andrew: Animal City: The Domestication of America, 292, 310
Roscher, Mieke, 32
Roux, Emile, 189
Russell, Edmund, 50
Russell, Nerissa, 325
S
Sagard, Gabriel, 1–3, 11; Le grand voyage du pays des Hurons, 2
Sale, Charles, 146
Say, Thomas, 158–60, 163, 165, 167
Seabiscuit (horse), 23
Sealab III, 210
The Secret History of the Mongols, 20
Seefeldt, Douglas, 286
Sellers, Chris, 66
sensory history, 24, 29, 34, 41
Seton, Ernest Thompson, 142, 245
Shaw, David Gary, 4
sheep, 317, 324, 331, 340, 389
Sherow, James, 75
Simon, Roger: and Jennifer Bonnell, 384
Sinclair, Upton, 293
Sitting Bull, 77
slaughterhouses, 292–93, 296, 299, 302–6, 309, 370. See also butchering
Smith, Clinton, 81
Smith, William F., 222
Snow, Sasha, 258
Snyder, Bill, 315
Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCAs), 8, 10, 141–42, 293–94, 305; American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), 141; Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 345; San Francisco SPCA (SFSPCA), 305–9, 311
Soussloff, Catherine, 372, 378
spatial history, 292, 295, 311. See also The Stanford Spatial History Project (SHP),
The Stanford Spatial History Project (SHP), 292, 294–95, 298, 303–4, 306–7. See also “Animal City” Spatial History Lab project; spatial history
Spook (llama), 227, 315–17, 328. See also llamas
stallions. See horses,
Stanley, Agnes, 188
Stein, Charles A., 83
Steinberg, Theodore, 292
The Stockman Guide and Manual to Husbandry, 120, 122–25, 127
Stoler, Ann Laura, 235
Strunk, Simon, 175
Styran, Roberta, 349
T
takhis, 20–21, 26, 36–37; food resources of, 36; as “free or spirit horse,” 19; growing populations of, 37; interbreeding of, 39; narrative descriptions of, 37; and reintroduction to Mongolia, 20–21; and rewilding efforts, 39, 41; taxonomic position of, 37; as wild horses, 39, 41. See also horses; Przewalski’s horse
tamga. See tamaga
tamgha. See tamaga
Tarr, Joel, 51
taxidermy, 23, 138; practice, 373; process, 373, 381; and taxidermied animals, 371, 374, 381, 383
Taylor, Robert, 349
Terry, Alfred, 83
Thomas, Lynn, 26
Thompson, J. Gurnley, 121, 122; The Domestic Encyclopedia of Facts or Farmers, Mechanics, and Household Manual, 120–21, 123, 127
Toronto Humane Society, 147
Tortorici, Zac, 5
Townsend, Gordon, 57
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 235–36
Tuffy (dolphin), 13, 227; agency of, 200; background of, 199–200, 203–4, 207, 214; begins open water work, 206, 208; death of, 200, 210, 212–13; in The Dolphins That Joined the Navy, 204; evidence in archives of, 200; Deborah Duffield, 204–6, 214; recovery of ordnance by, 208; and oral history, 200; personality of, 204–5, 210, 214; and public interest, 199, 207; and Sam Ridgway, 206, 212, 214; and Sealab II, 199, 208; and US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 200, 203, 209
Turkel, William J., 286
Tusko (elephant), 200; background of, 224; and Diamond, 224; final years of, 228–29; handlers of, 226, 229; name changed from Ned to, 224; as Ned, 224, 226–29; and rampage in Sedro-Woolley, 224, 226; sources on the life of, 226; stories of, 224, 227, 230; at Woodland Park Zoo, 229. See also Ned (elephant)
U
US Navy Marine Mammal Program, 199–200, 203, 209–10, 212–14
V
Vaillant, John, 258
Van Der Byl, Major Charles C.,
ventriloquism: as risk of animal history, 3, 8, 15, 29
veterinarians, 122, 126, 131, 331–32; in rural areas, 117–19; and London Correspondence School, 126; view of animal health manuals, 117–18. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinary medicine
veterinary medicine, 119; as costly, 117–18, 122, 131; demand for knowledge of, 119, 126; development of, 117; farmers’ limited access to, 122; institutionalization in Canada of, 126, 129, 132; and Veterinary Science Association, 129; and veterinary training, 118–19. See also animal health care; animal health knowledge; animal health manuals; veterinarians
Veterinary Science Practice Act, 126, 129
vicuñas, 14, 324, 326; as camelid species, 317, 323; conservation challenges of, 328; throughout South America, 322, 332; as water dependent, 324; wool of, 328
visual analysis, 341–42, 345, 348, 352–53; and animal history, 342; defined, 342; relationship to contextual analysis, 345. See also contextual analysis,
vivisection, 187–88, 190. See also antivivisection movement,
von Hartenfels, Georg Christoph Petri, 218; Elephantographia curiosa, 218
Von Hear, Nicholas, 318
W
Waite, Merton B., 66
Walton, Homer, 222
Weyodi (Comanche author), 81
White, Richard, 51, 252; Organic Machine, 51
Wilson, Robert M., 238
Wischermann, Clemens, 279
women: and the American Philosophical Society (APS), 161; in the antivivisection movement, 188; and fur fashion 139–42, 144. See also gender
Woodcock Jr., William “Buckles,” 218
Woods, Abigail, 119
World War I, 137, 139, 180, 360
World War II, 57, 140, 147, 181, 201
Worster, Donald, 38
Wright, Mabel Osgood, 143
X
Xenophon, 77–78, 80; The Art of Horsemanship, 77
Y
You, Chengcheng, 149
Z
zooethnography, 31
zoos: archives of, 218; Central Park Zoo, 315; in cities, 293; Copenhagen zoo, 397; and elephants, 226, 228; Hogle Zoo, 217; in Kansas City, 329; petting zoos, 324, 328; spatial arrangement of, 362; and takhis, 20, 41; and wild animals, 138, 220, 397; Woodland Park Zoo, 221, 225, 229