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humanimalia-16715	Motamedi Fraser, Mariam	Writing on the Animal’s Side: Review of Éric Baratay, Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals	2023	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3568	119	50	Where Krebber and Roscher propose that the aim of animal biography is “to account for [animals’] individuality without having to read their minds, recon- struct their feelings or infer their intentions”,1 Baratay argues by con- trast that this is precisely the aspiration: to adopt the individual an- imal’s “point of view” and “to understand what it lives, experiences, and feels” as such (8). Baratay’s restitution of the giraffe’s and of Warrior’s experiences renders transparent the role played by official documents in erasing individual animal lives, not least by ex- purgating the reality of what they endure in service of more flatter- ing portraits of their conditions, and of their relations with their hu- man handlers: the physical and emotional constraints and coercions, the boredom, the casual disregard, the numerous implications that flow from human ignorance, incomprehensibility, and lack of com- passion and empathy.	cache/humanimalia-16715.pdf	txt/humanimalia-16715.txt