Animals in Translation

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• Why cows hate yellow

  Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behaviour by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson 368pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 This magisterial book on animal behaviour is unique and, for me, is gripping reading. It is written by ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Bloomsbury, £8.99 There are two prevalent attitudes to linguistic communication with animals. First, there is Wittgenstein's: "If a lion could speak, we would not be able to understand it ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Unusual topic, unusual style...

  This is certainly an interesting book. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who found a way to apply her specific autistic sensitivity toward the solution of real-world problems. She works as a consultant for slaughterhouse and placed where animals are raised, treated, and killed. She draws parallels ... (continue)

  This is certainly an interesting book. Temple Grandin is an autistic woman who found a way to apply her specific autistic sensitivity toward the solution of real-world problems. She works as a consultant for slaughterhouse and placed where animals are raised, treated, and killed. She draws parallels between her experience with autism and her understanding of how animals think, and experience/feel the world.
  The book is written in a non-fluid English: each sentence sounds of independent from the previous and the next ones. But after a while I got used to that. What I didn't like was mostly her way of mixing scientific statement with her intuitions, hypothesis, and some anecdotal evidence. A more rigorous distinction between facts and non-facts could help to increase her credibility.
  Despite all the explanations she provided, I still have problem to understand how an animal lover can work for a slaughterhouse.

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• English Books
• Paperback 368 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0747566690
• ISBN-13: 9780747566694
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Pub date: May 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD and Others
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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