Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

Temple'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. She offers unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas about both. Among its provocative ideas, the book: argues that language is not a requirement for consciousness and that animals do have consciousness; compares animals to autistic savants; examines how humans and animals use their emotions to think and even to predict the future; maintains that the single worst thing you can do to an animal is to make it feel afraid.

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Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368

As a child, Temple Grandin could not speak. Her silent existence was broken only by rhythmic rocking and occasional fits of screaming and thrashing. Diagnosed with autism, Temple’s many caregivers eventually helped her contradict her doctors’ morbid predictions and go on to become one of the autism community’s most beloved success stories. Temple Grandin, PhD, is a popular international lecturer on autism and the author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation, and Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships. One of the world’s leading experts in livestock facility design, over half of the cattle in North America are handled in facilities designed by her. She credits her visual thinking and her systemizing mind, both characteristics of autism, for her ability to be “the woman who thinks like a cow." Temple continues to be an inspiration and role model to millions.