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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin
4.02 AVERAGE
141 reviews for:
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin
4.02 AVERAGE
In 2010, I caught snippets of this book as my mom drove me about and listened to Temple Grandin read her book on audio. Fast forward to 2018, and I have finally found time to read the book that has had snippets floating in and out of my concious and conversations for years.
Why did I wait so long to read this book? I couldn't put it down, and it was better in its entirety. It has since sparked a heavy interest in the relationship animal and human behaviors.
A good book to follow with is
Temple Grandin's The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.
Why did I wait so long to read this book? I couldn't put it down, and it was better in its entirety. It has since sparked a heavy interest in the relationship animal and human behaviors.
A good book to follow with is
Temple Grandin's The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum.
So, this book definitely shows it's age and should include an update about dominance theory being debunked. I cringed every time you referenced submission and alphas and so on. Ugh.
I love how in one section she goes on and on about showing your dominance and that you are the alpha. Then, in the next chapter she's says animals feel fear more than they do pain. So, I'm surprised she didn't see how counter productive dominance theory was, begat no matter how you look at it, you were making your animal fear you.
I love how in one section she goes on and on about showing your dominance and that you are the alpha. Then, in the next chapter she's says animals feel fear more than they do pain. So, I'm surprised she didn't see how counter productive dominance theory was, begat no matter how you look at it, you were making your animal fear you.
This was easily the most interesting book I have read in a long time, and everyone should read it.
My own ignorance about autism was staggering, and I feel like this book was a great place to start learning.
Temple Grandin is fascinating.
I literally cannot come up with more coherent feedback than this.
My own ignorance about autism was staggering, and I feel like this book was a great place to start learning.
Temple Grandin is fascinating.
I literally cannot come up with more coherent feedback than this.
A fascinating read, however the writing style did not work for me. It was too repetitive for my taste and made it difficult to keep my interest going. Still, I am very glad I read this, and got to learn more about the work of Temple Grandin in her own words.
I absolutely loved this book! It changed the way I see many things. It was interesting, captivating, and I never wanted to put it down. I learned about autism, animals, and different ways in which we see the world. So many perspectives! I would highly recommend this.
This was understandably a bit dry and at times repetitive, but I never got bored with it. There are many interesting observations and theories in the science of animal behavior, and Temple Grandin illustrates a broad selection of these. Her vocabulary choices are deliberate, consise, and surprisingly approachable, so the layperson can follow easily.
I listened to this through my library's digital audio download program, so it took me longer to find time to "read" this than my paper-bound books might, but it did keep me on the treadmill a little longer than music would.
I listened to this through my library's digital audio download program, so it took me longer to find time to "read" this than my paper-bound books might, but it did keep me on the treadmill a little longer than music would.
Tmeple Grandin is amazing and this book was totally engrossing. I am not usually "into" non-fiction, but I did not want to put this book down.
Temple's insights into how animals think and what they feel - whether it's predator (dogs, cats, tigers, wolves) or prey (cattle, horses, sheep) animals - are thought provoking and a definite eye opener into how "normal" people see the world.
Anyone interested in animal behavior would find this book intriguing. I am thinking of picking up her books that are about autism in the near future. (FYI, Temple Grandin is autistic, and is able to "see" how animals see. She has a PhD in Animal Behavior, and is an expert in the field of cattle handling.)
Temple's insights into how animals think and what they feel - whether it's predator (dogs, cats, tigers, wolves) or prey (cattle, horses, sheep) animals - are thought provoking and a definite eye opener into how "normal" people see the world.
Anyone interested in animal behavior would find this book intriguing. I am thinking of picking up her books that are about autism in the near future. (FYI, Temple Grandin is autistic, and is able to "see" how animals see. She has a PhD in Animal Behavior, and is an expert in the field of cattle handling.)
I hope this book will help regular people be a little less verbal and a little more visual. I've spent thirty years as an animal scientist, and I've spent my whole life as an autistic person. I hope what I've learned will help people start over again with animals (and maybe with autistic people, too), and begin to think about them in a different way.
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A book that was highly recommended to me in my undergrad days of studying Education and which I only now got around to reading. I wish I hadn't waited! By now I'm sure everybody knows the "hook" to this title: author Temple Grandin is autistic (her own words, no offense meant to anybody who prefers the Identity-First Language of "a person with autism" or "on the spectrum" or something similar -- I'm not very up-to-date on things like this and genuinely hope I don't offend) and so this book is both a sharp reminder that everyone has a valuable contribution to make of some sort or another as well as an illuminating look into animal behavior which is a fascinating topic in and of itself.
Grandin's writing is quaint, and patient, and precise. It's guileless. It's as if Kurt Vonnegut were writing a "how to" manual. And in learning about animal behavior, she asks us to consider our own in the process, making for a wonderful primer on foundational topics in psychology.
All in all this is a good book, but not perfect - it grows quite repetitive, and Grandin fires off a lot of trivia that is interesting but does not delve very deeply into the topics she shares. It's a really great introductory text to some basic principles of brain chemistry, developmental psychology, and of course behaviorism and animal husbandry. But while each page itself is full of fascinating tidbits, the book as a whole does not cohere.
3 stars out of 5. Both interesting and informative, which is what we all hope for in our nonfiction, but the length leads to repetition, the content doesn't delve all that deeply into these topics, and as other reviewers have noted there are some concerns about the scientific validity of some of her conclusions drawn on small sample sizes and anecdotal evidence. The best chapters, in my opinion, are "Pain and Suffering" and "How Animals Think" as they explore content I haven't seen as often in other works.
Dr. Temple Grandin has written an intriguing explanation of how her way of thinking in pictures offers insight as an autistic scholar towards understanding the way animals might think as well. It was a fast and fascinating read- I highly recommend this for anyone to read and get a window into another perspective to people and animals.
Interesting book. A lot of insight into how animals perceive their world; however, I disagree with some of the premises put forth in this book - namely that animals can never forget a traumatic experience, thus never fully recover from it. There are people working with animals, particularly dogs, proving that's not entirely accurate every day.