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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal BehaviorSnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson  Dewey Decimal Number: 591.5 EAN: 9780156031448 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0156031442 Label: Harvest Books Manufacturer: Harvest Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 372 Publication Date: January 02, 2006 Publisher: Harvest Books Studio: Harvest Books Related Items:
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 Rating: - Remarkable Insights and InspirationTemple Grandin was profiled in a BBC Horizon documentary a year or two back as `the woman who thinks like a cow'. A somewhat uncomplimentary portrayal you might think, until you appreciate that Grandin is a gifted professor of animal science and champion for autism, and that cows are far more interesting creatures than might often be assumed. Grandin discovered that her way of viewing the world corresponded very closely to the perceptions of many animals. As a trouble-shooter on farms and ranches across the USA, she found that she could very often just `see' the problems which were scaring cattle and bringing their owners to the brink of despair. Combined with her prolific research and writings, autism has been a rare gift, enabling her remarkable work. As a novice in the field of animal science, I felt fascinated and challenged by the wide mix of ideas this book presents. Topics as diverse as why pigs enjoy snuggling up to each other and genetic aggression are introduced in easy, layman's terms, giving interesting details about the research but also recognising that scientists don't yet have all the answers. Grandin challenges us to question a lot of what we might believe about animal behaviour - and for that matter autism - and does so with humility and humour. A wealth of down-to-earth anecdotes ground the research and open questions posed. For example, we learn about a friend's cat who knew when `mother' was entering the lift of their apartment block some 12 floors below and of the prairie dogs of Arizona who've not only evolved a language involving nouns, verbs and adjectives, but even different dialects amongst local colonies! At the same time, familiar stories are looked at a new light. For example, the story of the German `counting' horse Clever Hans is looked at not as a disappointing scam (it was revealed that Hans couldn't really count), but remarkable for the fact that a horse had taught himself to tune into subtle human cues in the first place. This is just one example of what is often unseen `animal genius'. Grandin appeals for humane treatment of all animals, which she argues must come through a new understanding of how they interact with their world and how we deal with our husbandry of them. The joint writing with Catherine Johnson works well, coming across as a conversation between friends (including the reader). But what is remarkable is that Grandin and Johnson manage to present deep insights into both autism and animal communication, as well as linking the two together. Rarely does a book inspire us to think both about the animals around us and our fellow human beings in a new way. This is a truly wonderful book, and one which I have found myself constantly wanting to recommend to others. Rating: - Animals in TranslationAnimals in Translation is an amazing book. This book states that by looking at human autism, we can better under animals, the way they think, the way they behave, and how they see the world. The author is an animal scientist who works primarily with slaughter houses. She is also autistic. Before reading this book, I had very little comprehension about the way that autistic people see the world. I simply had no idea that seeing the world in a visual way was that much different than the way that I think. I now see that this different way of thinking has a lot of really interesting benefits, particularly when it comes to understanding other visual thinkers like the animals around us. As I read this book, I started to comprehend how much detail in life we normally ignore. So much of what we need to understand animals is simply looking at life from their perspective, both literally and figuratively speaking. Rating: - great book!got this book in hawaii for somthing to read for the trip back home and i could not put it down until i finnished it, this is an excellent book for people who would like a new view on how dogs and animals view there surrounding world and live in it. It also gives some pretty good insight about people with autism. overall a very good read.  Try searching the Internet for "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior" or Ebay for "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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