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Temple Grandins Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel. divnbspdiv pTemples 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. Standing at the intersection of autism and animals she offers unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas about both. p pAutistic people can often think the way animals think -- in fact Grandin and co-author Catherine Johnson see autism as a kind of way station on the road from animals to humans -- putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate quotanimal talk.quot Temple is a faithful guide into their world exploring animal pain fear aggression love friendship communication learning and yes even animal genius. Not only are animals much smarter than anyone ever imagined in some cases animals are out-and-out brilliant. p pThe sweep of Animals in Translation is immense merging an animal scientists thirty years of study with her keen perceptions as a person with autism -- Temple sees what others cannot. p pAmong its provocative ideas the book p ul liargues that language is not a requirement for consciousness -- and that animals do have consciousness li liapplies the autism theory of quothyper-specificityquot to animals showing that animals and autistic people are so sensitive to detail that they quotcant see the forest for the treesquot -- a talent as well as a quotdeficitquot li liexplores the quotinterpreterquot in the normal human brain that filters out detail leaving people blind to much of the reality that surrounds them -- a reality animals and autistic people see sometimes all too clearly li liexplains how animals have quotsuperhumanquot skills animals have animal genius li licompares animals to autistic savants declaring that animals may in fact be autistic savants with special forms of genius that normal people do not possess and sometimes cannot even see li liexamines how humans and animals use their emotions to think to decide and even to predict the future li lireveals the remarkable abilities of handicapped people and animals li limaintains that the single worst thing you can do to an animal is to make it feel afraid li ul

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