Book description
How can we give animals the best life—for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals…
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2 authors picked Animals Make Us Human as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I like Temple Grandin’s Animals Make Us Human because it points the way to improved animal welfare and understanding.
Most animal cognition books and scientific studies focus on predator animals, like dogs, cats, whales, dolphins, and apes. Grandin’s work focuses instead on prey animals, primarily horses and cattle.
Prey and predator brains behave very differently from each other, so it’s important for our safety, pleasure, and love for animals to understand those differences.
From Janet's list on horse and human interaction.
I love this book, and I want to buy one for every animal lover I know. Chapters feature Temple Grandin’s unique observations of dogs, cats, horses, pigs, chickens, and cattle. Temple Grandin pushes back on popular methods of dog management. Grandin thinks like a scientist and states observable facts.
Most Americans keep one dog. A single dog living in a family compares to a child living with parents. Dogs see their roles as puppies, wanting to please. Dogs watch people’s faces for clues on how they should behave. Dogs’ wild ancestors, wolves, live in small families, never in massive packs.…
From Deborah's list on dogs and canine behavior.
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