Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: The Case of the Camel (Tom Tyler) -- PART ONE POTENTIAL ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter One If Horses Had Hands (Tom Tyler) -- Chapter Two Magic is Afoot: Hoof Marks, Paw Prints and the Problem of Writing Wildly (Pamela Banting) -- PART TWO MEDIATE ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter Three Post-Meateating (Carol J. Adams) -- Chapter Four Americans Do Weird Things with Animals, or, Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? (Randy Malamud) -- PART THREE EXPERIMENTAL ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter Five Affect, Friendship and the "As Yet Unknown": Rat Feeding Experiments in Early Vitamin Research (Robyn Smith) -- Chapter Six Becoming-with-Companions: Sharing and Response in Experimental Laboratories (Donna Haraway) -- PART FOUR CORPOREAL ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter Seven Invisible Parts: Animals and the Renaissance Anatomies of Human Exceptionalism (Laurie Shannon) -- Chapter Eight Invisible Histories: Primate Bodies and the Rise of Posthumanism in the Twentieth Century (Jonathan Burt) -- PART FIVE DOMESTIC ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter Nine Fellow-Feeling (Susan Squier) -- Chapter Ten "Tangible and Real and Vivid and Meaningful": Lucy Kimbell's Not-Knowing About Rats (Steve Baker) -- PART SIX LIBIDINAL ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter Eleven The Predicament of Zoopleasures: Human-Nonhuman Libidinal Relations (Monika Bakke) -- Chapter Twelve ComingTogether: Symbiogenesis and Metamorphosis in Paul di Filippo's A Mouthful of Tongues (Manuela Rossini) -- Index.