Animals Strike Curious Poses

by Elena Passarello

  Okey, Thomas, trans. The Little Flowers of Saint Francis. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2003.

  GANDA

  Bartrum, Giulua. Albrecht Dürer and His Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

  Bremer-David, Charissa. “Animal Lovers Are Informed.” In Oudry’s Painted Menagerie: Portraits of Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art, edited by Mary Morton, 91-104. Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2007.

  “Number 75: Dürer’s ‘Rhinoceros’.” A History of the World in 100 Objects. BBC Online, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/about/transcripts/episode75/.

  Bubenik, Andrea. Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art 1528-1700. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2013.

  Clarke, T.H. The Rhinoceros from Dürer to Stubbs, 1515-1799. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1988.

  British Pathé. “Dalí Paints Rhino 1955.” YouTube video, 00:39. Posted April 13, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPtU8WZD3M.

  Dalí, Salvador. Dalí on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art. Translated by Haakon M. Chevalier. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1996.

  Dalí, Salvador. Diary of a Genius. New York: Doubleday, 1965.

  Eisler, Colin. Dürer’s Animals. Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 2001.

  Enright, Kelly. Rhinoceros. London: Reaktion Books, 2008.

  Gibson, Ian. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí. New York: Norton, 1998.

  Masterpieces of the British Museum: Dürer’s Rhinoceros. London: Quantum Leap Video, 2007. DVD.

  Latham, Robert, trans. The Travels of Marco Polo. New York: Penguin, 1958.

  Prinz, Jesse. “Dürer’s Rhinoceros: Art, Exotica, and Empire.” Artboullion, January 3, 2015. http://www.artbouillon.com/2015/01/durers-rhinoceros-art-exotica-and-empire.html.

  Quammen, David. The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder. New York: Scribner, 2000.

  Ridley, Glynis. Clara’s Grand Tour: Travels with a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-Century Europe. New York: Grove, 2004.

  Russell, Francis. The World of Dürer. New York: Time Life Education, 1967.

  Salley, Victoria. Nature’s Artist: Plants and Animals by Albrecht Dürer. New York: Prestel Verlag, 2003.

  Spinks, Jennifer. Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany. New York: Routledge, 2009.

  Strauss, Walter, ed. The Complete Engravings, Etchings, and Dry Points of Albrecht Dürer. New York: Dover 1972.

  SACKERSON

  Adams, Joseph Quincy. A History of English Theaters from the Beginning to the Restoration. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.

  “Anecdotes of Bear Baiting.” The Gentleman’s Magazine 103 (June 1833): 486.

  Baldwin, Elizabeth. “But Where Do They Get the Bears?: Animal Entertainments in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Cheshire.” Paper presented at the SITM Colloquim, Groningen, Netherlands, July 2-7, 2001.

  Chambers, Robert. “Bear Baiting.” The Book of Days, Volume 2. Philadelphia: Lipincott, 1899.

  Fudge, Erica. Perceiving Animals: Humans and Beasts in Early Modern Culture. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

  Hoffle, Andreas. “Sackerson the Bear.” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. Edited by Herbert Grabes, 161-175. Gottinger, Germany: Hubert & Company, 2001.

  Mabillard, Amanda. “Entertainment in Elizabethan England.” Shakespeare Online, August 20, 2000. Accessed June 21, 2016. http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/entertainment.html.

  Morris, Sylvia. “Exit, Pursued By a Bear? Bear-baiting in Shakespeare’s London.” The Shakespeare Blog. January 13, 2013. http://theshakespeareblog.com/2013/01/bears/.

  Nott, J. Fortune. “Bears.” Wild Animals, Photographed and Described. London: Crown, 1886.

  Walford, Edward, ed. “London Theatres.” The Antiquary 12 (July 1885): 44-48.

  Wheatley, H.B. London Past and Present. London: Scribner, 1891.

  JEOFFRY

  Curry, Neil. Christopher Smart. Devon: Northcote House, 2005.

  Hawes, Clement, email interview with the author, May 13, 2014.

  Mounsey, Chris: Christopher Smart: Clown of God. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2001.

  Smart, Christopher. “For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry.” The Penguin Book of English Verse. Edited by PJ Keegan. London: Penguin, 2004.

  ---. The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart, I: Jubilate Agno. Edited by Karina Williamson. Oxford: Clarendon, 1980.

  VOGEL STAAR

  Ashoori, Aidin and Joeseph Jankovic. “Mozart’s Movements and Behaviour: A Case of Tourette’s Syndrome? Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery 78, no. 11 (November 2007): 1171-1175.

  Chaiken, Marthalea, Jorg Bohener, and Peter Marler. “Song Acquisition in European Starlings, Sturnus vulgaris.” Animal Behaviour 46, no. 6 (December 1993): 1079-1090.

  Deutch, Otto Eric. Mozart: A Documentary Biography. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 1966.

  Feare, Christopher. The Starling. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

  Gutman, Robert W. Mozart: A Cultural Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999.

  Harer, Ingeborg. “Musical Venues in Vienna, Seventeenth Century to Present.” Performance Practice Review 8 (Spring 1995): 83-92.

  Karhausen, Lucien. The Bleeding of Mozart: A Medical Glance into His Life, Illness, and Personality. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2011.

  Keim, Brandon. “Starling Flocks Behave Like Flying Magnets.” Wired, March 13, 2012. www.wired.com/2011/11/starling-flock/.

  ---. “The Startling Science of a Starling Murmuration.” Wired, November 11, 2011. www.wired.com/2012/03/starling-flock-dynamics/.

  Robbins Landon, H.C., ed. The Mozart Companion: A Guide to Mozart’s Life and Music. New York: Schirmer, 1990.

  Marler, Peter and Hans Slabbekoorn. Nature’s Music: The Science of Birdsong. Oxford, UK: Elsevier, 2004.

  Rothenberg, David. “Why You Can’t Teach a Starling to Sing.” National Wildlife Federation online, April 1, 2006. https://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Birds/Archives/2006/Why-You-Cant-Teach-a-Starling-to-Sing.aspx.

  Ross, Alex. “The Storm of Style.” Listen to This. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.

  Spaethling, Robert. Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. New York: Norton, 2000.

  Stafford, William. Mozart’s Death: A Collective Survey of the Legends. London: Macmillan, 1991.

  Stap, Don. Birdsong: A Natural History. New York: Scribner, 2005.

  ThePIPdesign. “Starling song over five minutes straight.” Youtube video, 05:55. Posted April 20, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pjUlp2Cy0.

  Tyson, Alan. Mozart: Studies of the Autograph Scores. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.

  Wakin, Daniel J. “After Mozart’s Death, an Endless Coda.” New York Times, August 24, 2010.

  West, Meredith J., and Andrew King. “Mozart’s Starling.” American Scientist 78 (March-April 1990): 106-114.

  Wright, Craig. Listening to Music. 7th Ed. Boston: Cengage 2013.

  HARRIET

  Australia Zoo. “Harriet: Our Famous and Much-Loved Giant Galápagos Tortoise.” https://www.australiazoo.com.au/our-animals/harriet/.

  Benchley, Peter. “Galápagos: Paradise in Peril.” National Geographic, April 1999.

  “Brisbane Flood of 1893 Left Most of Metropolis in Ruins.” Sydney Daily Mirror, May 31, 1985.

  Chambers, Robert. A Sheltered Life: The Unexpected History of the Giant Tortoise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

  Darwin, Charles. Autobiographies. New York: Penguin, 2006.

  ---. The Voyage of the Beagle. New York: Penguin, 1989.

  Darwin, Francis, ed. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin. Project Gutenberg, 2013. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2087/2087-h/2087-h.htm.

  Fleay, David. Living With Animals. Melbourne: Lansdowne Press, 1960.

  Stewart, Robin. Darwin’s Tortoise. Melbourne: Black Publishing 2005.

  Townsend, Charles Haskins. The Galápagos Tortoises and Their Relation to the Wh
aling Industry: A Study of Old Logbooks. New York: New York Zoological Society, 1925.

  White, Gilbert. Portrait of a Tortoise: Extracted from the Books and Letters of Gilbert White. London: Chatto and Windus, 1946.

  Williams, Brian. “Harriet’s 92 Million Minutes of Fame.” Brisbane Courier Mail, October 10, 2005.

  Young, Peter. Tortoise. London: Reaktion Books, 2003.

  WAR PIGS

  American Battle Monuments Commission. 77th Division: Summary of Operations in the World War. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1944.

  Blechman, Andrew. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird. New York: Grove, 2007.

  “Coos and Kudos to Greet ‘Anti-red’ Pigeon Who Flew Message Through the Iron Curtain.” New York Times, August 1, 1954.

  Cummings, Richard. Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in Europe. London: McFarland, 2009.

  ---. Radio Free Europe’s “Crusade for Freedom.” London: McFarland, 2011.

  Dash, Mike. “Closing the Pigeon Gap.” Smithsonian online, April 17, 2012. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/closing-the-pigeon-gap-68103438/.

  Ferrell, Robert. Five Days in October: The Lost Battalion of World War I. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2005.

  Fisher, John. Airlift 1870: The Balloon and Pigeon Post in the Siege of Paris. London: M. Parrish, 1965.

  Hayhurst, Jay. The Pigeon Post into Paris 1870-1871. Middlesex, UK: Ashford Press, 1970.

  “Heroine Pigeon Now a ‘Citizen’.” New York Times, August 23, 1954.

  Horne, Alistair. The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71. New York: Penguin, 2007.

  “Iron Curtain Bird Here on Crusade.” New York Times, August 2, 1954.

  Johnson, Thomas, and Fletcher Pratt. The Lost Batallion. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 2000.

  Lawrence, Ashley. “A Message Brought to Paris by Pigeon Post in 1870-71.” http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct10/al-pigeonpost.html.

  National Archives. “Pigeon Message from Capt. Whittlesey to the Commanding Officer of the 308th Infantry.” https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595541.

  Navrozov, Andrei. “Popping Balloons.” Chronicles, September 3, 2014. https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/popping-balloons/.

  Stevens, Lucy. “Siege of Paris: Pigeon Post and Balloon Mail.” Paris Pigeon Post. Last modified April 26, 2011. https://parispigeonpost.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/siege-of-paris-pigeon-post-and-balloon-mail/.

  Syria Homs. “Syria - Homs - Bab Sbaa - 20120211 - People of Baba Amr homing pigeons to send messages.” Youtube video, 05:17. Posted May 2, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNLtBgmnvv8.

  “Syrians Send Messages via Carrier Pigeons in Homs.” London Telegraph, February 14, 2012.

  Vanderbilt, Tom. “A Wing and a Prayer.” Cabinet 11 (June 2003).

  Weiss, Robert. Enemy North, South, East, West: a Recollection of the “Lost Battalion” at Mortain, France. Portland, OR: Strawberry Hill Press, 1998.

  JUMBO II

  Adams, Edward Dean. Niagara Power: History of the Niagara Falls Power Company, 1886-1918. New York: Bartlett, 1927.

  Allwood, John. The Great Exhibitions. London: Studio Vista, 1977.

  Barry, Richard. Snapshots on the Midway. Buffalo: R.A. Reid, 1901.

  Circus Historical Society. “Billboard Excerpts 1901-1903.” Last modified December 2011. http://www.circushistory.org/History/Billboard1901.htm.

  Brandon, Craig. The Electric Chair: An Unnatural American History. London: McFarland, 1988.

  Chambers, Paul. Jumbo. Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2008.

  Conklin, George, and Harvey Woods Root. The Ways of the Circus: Being the Memories and Adventures of George Conklin, Lion Tamer. New York: Harper, 1921.

  “Coroners’ Inquests: Death of the Elephant Hannibal.” New York Times, June 2, 1865.

  Daly, Michael. Topsy. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013.

  Davis, Edwin F. Electrocution Chair. US Patent 587,649, filed January 6, 1897 and issued August 3, 1897.

  Doing the Pan. “This Day in 1901 Archives.” http://panam1901.org/sitemap.htm.

  Dunlap, Orrin E. “Inauguration of the Niagara-Buffalo Power Transmission.” Electrical Engineer 22 (November 25, 1896): 540-542.

  “Electricity for Executing Criminals.” Scientific American 52 (February 14, 1885): 101.

  Essig, Mark. Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death. London: Walker Books, 2005.

  Friedel, Robert and Paul Israel. Edison’s Electric Light: The Art of Invention. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

  “A Furious Elephant.” Sacramento Daily Union, March 26, 1896.

  Goldman, Mark. High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, NY. Albany: SUNY Press, 1983.

  Goodwin, G.G. “The First Living Elephant in America.” Journal of Mammology 6, no. 4 (November 1925): 256-263.

  “’Gypsy’ to Fight Spain.” Chicago Tribune, January 1, 1897.

  “How Much Current to Kill an Elephant?” Scientific American 60 (January 10, 1889): 18.

  Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse and the Race to Electrify the World. New York: Random House, 2004.

  “Jumbo II, Enormous Elephant at Bostock’s.” American Journal of Education (August 29, 1901): 147.

  “Killing Cattle by Electricity.” Scientific American 48 (March 24, 1883): 184.

  “A Man Killed by the Elephant Hannibal.” Sacramento Union, October 28, 1862.

  Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  McNichol, Tom. AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley and Sons, 2006.

  Moran, Richard. The Executioner’s Current.” New York: Knopf, 2002.

  “National Archives to Display King of Siam Letter to US President.” National Archives press release, September 23, 1999.

  Ogden, Tom. Two Hundred Years of the American Circus. New York: Facts on File, 1993.

  “Pan-American Exposition of 1901.” SUNY Buffalo. http://library.buffalo.edu/pan-am.

  Rauchway, Eric. Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

  Ray City History. “Bloody History of Gypsy the Elephant.” March 7, 2012. https://raycityhistory.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/bloody-history-of-gypsy-the-elephant/.

  Rydell, Robert W. All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

  Tobias, Richard. Behemoth: The History of the Elephant in America. New York: Harper Perennial, 2013.

  “Twin Elephants Born.” New York Times, June 25, 1903.

  “Two Thousand Two Hundred Volts Fail to Kill Jumbo at Buffalo Exposition.” San Francisco Call, November 10, 1901.

  “Ugly Elephant Kills a Keeper.” Chicago Tribune, April 26, 1901.

  Wittman, Matthew. “Mandarin and the Strangling of Circus Elephants.” February 17, 2014. http://www.matthewwittmann.com/strangling-circus-elephants/.

  Wood, Amy Louis. “Killing the Elephant: Murderous Beasts and the Thrill of Retribution.” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11, no. 3 (July 2012): 405-444.

  FOUR HORSEMEN

  “2012 Rolex Kentucky CCI****- Helmet Cam Analysis.” Youtube video, 19:20. Posted May 2, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ETEVzzcbc.

  “Berlin’s Wonderful Horse.” New York Times, September 4, 1904.

  “Clever Hans Again: Expert Commission Decides that the Horse Actually Reasons.” The London Standard, September 13, 1904.

  Gothamist. “Carriage Horse Being Restrained After Crash.” Vimeo video, 00:23. Posted August 16, 2012. https://vimeo.com/47686143.

  McFawn, Monica. Skype interview with author. January 18, 2016.

  Mister Ed: the Complete Series. Directed by Arthur Lubin. 1961-1966. Shout Factory, 2014. DVD.

  New
man, Andy. “Three Are Injured When Horse Sheds Coach in Manhattan.” New York Times, August 16, 2012.

  Payne, Doug. “From Scratch to 4* Eventer in 18 mins.” Youtube video, 18:50. Posted July 2, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njj39Wpl28I.

  Pfungst, Oskar. The Horse of Mr. Von Osten: A Contribution to Experimental Animal and Human Psychology. Translated by Carl L. Rahn. Project Gutenberg, 2010. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33936/33936-h/33936-h.htm

  Pilliner, Sarah, and Samantha Elmhurst. The Horse in Motion. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.

  Reeve, Christopher. Still Me. New York: Random House, 1998.

  Strahan, Tracie. “Spooked Horse ‘Oreo’ Recovering After Columbus Circle Accident.” NBC 4 New York, August 17, 2012. http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Oreo-Spooked-Carriage-Horse-Recovering-Columbus-Circle-Accident-166593036.html.

  A Wild Equus. “Clever Hans the Wonder Horse.” May 27, 2012. https://wildequus.org/2012/05/27/hans-the-wonder-horse/.

  Williams, Wendy. The Horse. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.

  Yee, Vivian. “Draft Horse that Bolted May End Up on Easy Street.” New York Times, August 17. 2012.

  Young, Alan. Mister Ed and Me. New York: St. Martin’s, 1994.

  MIKE

  “All in the Neck,” Time, October 29, 1945.

  “Beheaded Chicken Calmly Lives On.” Salt Lake Tribune, September 19, 1945.

  “The Chicken that Lived Eighteen Months Without a Head.” BBC News Magazine, September 10, 2015. http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390.

  Crew, Bec. “Meet Miracle Mike, the Chicken Who Lived for 18 Months Without His Head.” Scientific American (blog), September 26 2014. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/meet-miracle-mike-the-chicken-who-lived-for-18-months-without-his-head/.

  “Headless Rooster,” Life, October 22, 1945.

  Katzman, Rebecca. “Here’s Why a Chicken Can Live Without Its Head.” Modern Farmer, August 11, 2014. http://modernfarmer.com/2014/08/heres-chicken-can-live-without-head/.