In an attempt to reveal the formative and transformative aspects of Timothy Treadwell's
project, I rely upon an ethological framework developed by Matthew Calarco that moves beyond
the narrow conception of ethology as a scientific practice aimed at systematic and rigorous
documentation of the quantifiable aspects of animal behavior. While many people might be
hesitant to conceive of Treadwell's project as an ethological one, I hope to illuminate the ways in
which his life among bears and foxes might be understood as emblematic of a kind of amateur
ethology and ethological philosophy (i.e., ethosophy) and then use this understanding of
Treadwell's work to give shape to the disclosive, generative, and transformative aspects of such
practice. I then suggest that ethological experiments of this sort, while subjecting practitioners to
certain risks, are vitally important for understanding human-animal relationships, reducing
conflict between humans and other predator species, and generating systemic cultural changes in
view of other animals.
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