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A review by caterinaanna
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin
5.0
Another absolutely fascinating book which I read in one go, staying up far too late to finish it.
Grandin draws not only on her own observations and work, but those of others to generate a hypothesis about how animals perceive the world and offer advice about how to treat them. She demonstrates affection and respect for animals which obviously makes many wonder how she has been able to carry out her work in abattoirs making the process of sending animals to their deaths. She answers this point clearly and cogently in her book with a very interesting discussion on the difference between how much pain something causes and how much it hurts. The sometimes simplistic, very personal style of Thinking in Pictures is more refined here but her voice comes through - for example in her habit of always awarding people their titles where many would refer to them by surname alone - which is one of the things which makes it so easy to read.
Grandin draws not only on her own observations and work, but those of others to generate a hypothesis about how animals perceive the world and offer advice about how to treat them. She demonstrates affection and respect for animals which obviously makes many wonder how she has been able to carry out her work in abattoirs making the process of sending animals to their deaths. She answers this point clearly and cogently in her book with a very interesting discussion on the difference between how much pain something causes and how much it hurts. The sometimes simplistic, very personal style of Thinking in Pictures is more refined here but her voice comes through - for example in her habit of always awarding people their titles where many would refer to them by surname alone - which is one of the things which makes it so easy to read.