Animal biography, or, Authentic anecdotes of the lives, manners, and economy, of the animal creation : arranged according to the system of Linnaeus / by the Rev. W. Bingley ; in three volumes.

Symbols and Strategies: Acts of Métis Resistance - Using the List of Rights as a Framework for the Reclamation of Indigenous Child Welfare in British Columbia and Canada

“…I am located seven generations later in direct descent from Nostisho Nestichio. Samuel Hearne' s journal notes that one of the wives of Isaac Batt 5 , she was "forced to suckle a Young bear" (Bingley, 1803) after losing a child. For me, this genealogical artefact represents the extent to which Indigenous women' s lives were documented and scrutinized by the colonist.…”

‘Strange and Wonderful’: Encountering the Elephant in Britain, 1675‐1830

“…Far from it: Bingley claimed that the contents of his elephant biography, however incredible, had been validated by respectable and observing men, 'who, with both the powers and abilities of enquiring into them, seem to have entertained no doubts whatever of their validity'. 44 Bingley's readers -of whom there were many (Animal Biography ran to a seventh edition in 1829, reprinted as Animal Biography; or, Popular Zoology)were then presented with the challenge of constructing an animal from the legacies of a mythological beast and new anatomical explanations of elephant physiology and behaviour. It is clear, however, that many readers and spectators did not perceive these two stances as incompatible polar opposites.…”

Humans & humanists

“…For example, a chimpanzee acquired by the Earl Fitzwilliam in 1849 was reported to walk "perfectly erect" and handle "everything like a human being"; in addition, its food was "choice, and wine a favorite beverage." 24 Rumor persistently whispered that these visual analogies might represent more substantial and productive connections. Thus one seventeenth-century report featured a "poor miserable fellow" who had copulated with a monkey, "not out of any evil intention .…”