Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin
Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin
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Animals Make Us Human
Creating the Best Life for Animals

Author: Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Narrator: Temple Grandin, Andrea Gallo

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/03/2019


Synopsis

The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs.

In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life—on their terms, not ours.

It’s usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals, but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals. Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Whether it’s how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.

Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience.

This is essential reading for anyone who’s ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

About Temple Grandin

TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Autistic Brain, which have sold more than a million copies. Named one of Time's most influential people in 2010, the HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.

About Catherine Johnson

CATHERINE JOHNSON, Ph.D., is a writer specializing in neuropsychiatry and the brain. She cowrote Animals in Translation and served as a trustee of the National Alliance for Autism Research for seven years. She lives with her husband and three sons—two of whom have autism—in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gloria on June 10, 2009

The many fantastic reviews of this book seem to be based more on the person (autistic woman overcoming her disability to achieve a successful career advising the livestock industry on how to treat animals on the way to be nicer to their animals) than the book itself, which is awkwardly written and n......more

Goodreads review by Todd on January 22, 2009

Animals deserve the best life, and Temple Grandin's interesting take on our relationship with animals is always a pleasure to read. Particularly of interest was the way she pursued her thesis that animals make us human. This 21st century mental model of identifying -- and revising -- humans' long-st......more

Goodreads review by Book2Dragon on May 21, 2022

This author has studied animals for many years and worked with humans to make their lives less fearful and more humane. She herself is autistic, so that may give her more insight. She works from "Blue Ribbon Emotions" felt by all animals in some degree. They are : Seeking, Fear, Panic and Rage, Care......more

Goodreads review by Tamara on July 03, 2011

I love that the focus of this book is about how to make animals in captivity (pets, zoo animals, livestock, etc.) happy. It's so hard to know what it means for an animal to be happy and Temple Grandin uses careful analysis and science to help unravel the mystery. Knowing that animals need the freedo......more

Goodreads review by Jolanta (knygupė) on April 26, 2018

Informatyvi knyga, parasyta mokslininkes turincios autizmo sindroma. Butent sis sutrikimas padejo jai pazvelgti i gyvunu pasauli kitu kampu ir isspresti daugeli ju problemu. Knyga turetu perskaityti visi, ypac tie, kas turi salyti su gyvunais. Augina juos namuose, priziuri juos ukyje, taip pat dirba......more