Animals in translation : using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior
(2025, original release: 2005)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
591.5/GRANDIN,T

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 591.5/GRANDIN,T Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Scribner, 2025
©2005
EDITION
Scribner trade paperback edition
DESCRIPTION

xix, 356 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780743247702, 0743247701 :, 0743247701, 9780743247702
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Foreward copyright © 2025 by Temple Grandin; "Questions for Temple Grandin" copyright © 2016 by Temple Grandin -- title page verso

Foreword -- Chapter 1: My Story -- Chapter 2: How Animals Perceive the World -- Chapter 3: Animal Feelings -- Chapter 4: Animal Aggression -- Chapter 5: Pain and Suffering -- Chapter 6: How Animals Think -- Chapter 7: Animal Genius: Extreme Talents -- Behavior and Training Troubleshooting Guide -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors -- Questions for Temple Grandin

"With unique personal insight, experience, and hard science, Animals in Translation is the definitive, groundbreaking work on animal behavior and psychology. Temple Grandin's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field of animal science. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that autistic people can often think the way animals think -- putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate "animal talk." Exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and even animal genius, Grandin is a faithful guide into their world. Animals in Translation reveals that animals are much smarter than anyone ever imagined, and Grandin, standing at the intersection of autism and animals, offers unparalleled observations and extraordinary ideas about both"--