List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Bestiary: An Introduction (Philip Armstrong and Laurence Simmons) -- PART ONE THINKING ANIMALS -- Chapter One Shame, Levinas's Dog, Derrida's Cat (and Some Fish) (Laurence Simmons) -- Chapter Two Understanding Avian Intelligence (Alphonso Lingis) -- PART TWO ANIMALS INCORPORATED -- Chapter Three What do Animals Dream Of ? Or King Kong as Darwinian Screen Animal (Barbara Creed) -- Chapter Four "No Circus without Animals"?: Animal Acts and Ideology in the Virtual Circus (Tanja Schwalm) -- Chapter Five Farming Images: Animal Rights and Agribusiness in the Field of Vision (Philip Armstrong) -- PART THREE THE FACE OF THE ANIMAL -- Chapter Six The Mark of the Beast: Inscribing 'Animality' through Extreme Body Modification (Annie Potts) -- Chapter Seven Bill Hammond's Parliament of Foules (Allan Smith) -- PART FOUR THE PLACE OF THE ANIMAL -- Chapter Eight Extinction Stories: Performing Absence(s) (Ricardo De Vos) -- Chapter Nine Australia Imagined in Biological Control (Catharina Landström) -- PART FIVE ANIMAL TALES -- Chapter Ten Tails within Tales (Brian Boyd) -- Chapter Eleven Pigs, People and Pigoons (Helen Tiffin) -- Chapter Twelve Walking the Dog (Ian Wedde) -- Index.