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Temple grandin's book is putatively about how animals think -- but because she compares and contrasts that with neuro-normal human thinking, this becomes a book about how creatures, great and small, process data of the world around them. Grandin write... Read More
Wow it's insightful & inspiring. The evidence is anecdotal, but highly convincing.
She talks about how neurology, genetics and sociology are relevant to animal and human behaivor. The authors puts forward a theory that animals and autistic persons perceives the world in a similar manner.
Angel tompkins, golden globe nominee and lover of living species all ment to enteract with but only if we can translate from their pictures to our own vision to make this world better.
Cons
Animals in translation is a compilation of often contradictory scientific data. It endlessly repeats how the author sees things the way animals do because of her autism. How do autistic perceptions of nonhuman animals compare with those of non-autisti... Read More
They don't do the courtship dance that tells the hen to crouch into a * receptive position.
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Quality
Very thankful that this lady is sharing her gift with the world
The authors insights and personal stories are very interesting
Competitiveness
We are all caretakers of all the animals in the world
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- This product had a total of 922 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 6 2023.
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Ive raised and cared for dogs as pets for decades and never once though of my toy poodle as a gray wolf
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Interestingly she crosses over the line several times in her book and inadvertently talks about eugenics especially the chapteron the domestication of foxes
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Sometimes too detailed with study descriptions
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But do not pay heed to her wrong archeological insights
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It was only when i looked for a list of the books that temple grandin has written that i spotted this one
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I read thinking in pictures and found it okay
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But animals in translation was for me much more interesting
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Only 14 of the way through this book and i was able to understand 3 different situations with my dog and was able to correct them
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