Speaking of Real Animals and Their History offers an interdisciplinary exploration of animal lives across time, from dinosaurs and long-extinct cave bears to contemporary animals like the giant panda and bald eagles. Drawing on iconography, paleozoology, zooarchaeology, osteobiography, and textual accounts that document animals’ natural behaviors, Linda Kalof reconstructs in vivid prose a synthesis of interdisciplinary research on the life histories of animals through a realist lens, presenting true‑to‑life portraits of the creatures who have lived on Earth across time.
