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Texts: All texts (printed and video) for this class are available online or via pdf on your Canvas course site under the Files menu. Those online will be linked directly to your schedule page; those under password protection (for fair use) on the Canvas site are listed here:

• The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness.
• Davis, Diane. “Creaturely Rhetorics.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2011): 88-94.
• —. “Some Reflections on the Limit.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017): 275-284.
• Gray, Jonathan M. Gray. “Vultures: Consumptions and Conjurings.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017): 238-246.
• Hawhee, Debra. “Toward a Bestial Rhetoric.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2011), pp. 81-87.
• —. “Zoostylistics After Aristotle.” Chapter 2 from Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2017.
• Keeling, Diane M. “Feral Rhetoric: Common Sense Animals and Metaphorical Beasts.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017): 220-237.
• Kennedy, George A. “A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1992): 1-21.
• Marder, Michael. “What is Plant-Thinking?”
• Muckelbauer, John. “Domesticating Animal Theory.” Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2001): 95-100.
• Safina, Carl. Three selections from Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2015.

A handful of other online resources I wish we had time for:

• Rat empathy: http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/12/rats-show-empathy-will-come-to-the-aid-of-other-rats/
• Kanzi talks with Lisa Ling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKauXrp9dl4
• Kanzi and novel sentences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dhc2zePJFE
• Kanzi makes a fire and roasts marshmallows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbWDRzqNhc
• Kanzi makes tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zsSH9UUQtQ
• Kanzi, Ape Genius, pt 1 of 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUHWoFnuB4
• Panbanisha with the lexigram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EZofdBBqhk
• Panbanisha, a dog, and a hotdog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3FLor3-jLg&feature=youtu.be
• Dogs recognize emotional states: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/dogs-can-read-emotional-states-in-humans,-experts-prove/7216140?platform=hootsuite
• Ravens being spied on: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/02/ravens-can-imagine-being-spied-on-study-finds?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vox+Sentences+Feb+2%2C+2016&utm_term=Vox+Newsletter+All
• Ravens have theory of mind: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2076025-ravens-fear-of-unseen-snoopers-hints-they-have-theory-of-mind/
• Parrot intelligence:  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/parrots-are-a-lot-more-than-pretty-bird.html?_r=0
• Insect consciousness: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/151524/20160420/insects-can-teach-us-about-origins-of-consciousness-and-egos.htm
• Pettman, Dominic. “The Noble Cabbage: Michael. Marder’s ‘Plant-Thinking’?” Review of Marder’s Plant-Thinking. LA Review of Books.
• Frog the Rooster greets companion humans at school bus like a dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyeWTFLzNZ4
• More on Frog the Rooster: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrEin4Sye1QZ8RnPtzbr5rA
• Lizard waves back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_N9W6h5rYg
• Smarty Plants: http://www.radiolab.org/story/smarty-plants/

And just a few more print sources you might be interested in:

• Gordon, Jeremy G., Katherine D. Lind, and Saul Kutnicki. “A Rhetorical Bestiary.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017): 222-228.
• Parrish, Alex. “Don’t Try to Kid Me, Man-Cub.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 3 (2017): 215-221.
• Morrison, Rachel and Donna Reiss. “Precocious developments of self-awareness in dolophins.” PLOS One. 13.1 (Jan. 10, 2018): e0189813. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189813. Accessed January 10, 2018.
• JM Coetzee’s Lives of Animals
• Wolfe, Cary. 2008. “Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post)Humanist Philosophy.” SubStance 117 (37.3): 8-36.
• Mark Bekoff and Jessica Pierce’s Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals.
• Karl Steel, “How to Make a Human.” Exemplaria 20.1 (2008): 3-27)
• Kelly Oliver, Animal Lessons.
• Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why animal studies now?
• Donna Haraway’s essay on crittercams in The Sensorium (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sensorium)

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