Animals In Translation by Catherine Johnson, Temple Grandin (2006, Paperback, Reprint)

I bought to learn more about dog behavior. Some of her views are very insightful but sometimes the reading gets very heavy. Most of the book varies among different animals such as cattle, horses, ducks, etc.

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time, and I read alot. I work with autistic children at school, and have raised, trained and loved animals all my life. This book ties both of these loves together in a way that is helpful in gaining understanding in both areas. Ms. Grandin and Ms. Johnson do a wonderful job of explaining some of the differences in the way an autistic person sees the world and life in general as opposed to the way a normal person perceives life. They use very understandable examples and narrative.

Temple's life experiences as an autistic person that has overcome a great deal of the challenges that this disorder poses, to reach a point where she can very intelligently describe the differences in the way she views the world and what it was like growing up with this major challenge is very informative and interesting.

She uses many of her life experiences to illustrate how these differences help in understanding many animal behaviors in a way that was fascinating to read. She touches on brain structure and its physiology, and uses many examples of interesting experimental studies to explain the reasoning behind her conclusions.

If you are interested in finding out more about autism or about understanding animals, this book will help.

I bought this book, this time, because I want to get several copies of it for friends and relatives that I think would love reading it.

This book really helps to change one's perspective of how to view animals and work with them. I was recommended this book from someone else and I recommend it whole heartedly. It's a good read, hard to put down.

This book gives insight into animal behavier,and also autism.Asa mother of a child with autism,and dogs I had already seen a patteren,and this book explans everything in detail...........great book I recomend

Animals in Translation is an amazing book. This book states that by looking at human autism, we can better under animals, the way they think, the way they behave, and how they see the world. The author is an animal scientist who works primarily with slaughter houses. She is also autistic.

Before reading this book, I had very little comprehension about the way that autistic people see the world. I simply had no idea that seeing the world in a visual way was that much different than the way that I think. I now see that this different way of thinking has a lot of really interesting benefits, particularly when it comes to understanding other visual thinkers like the animals around us. As I read this book, I started to comprehend how much detail in life we normally ignore. So much of what we need to understand animals is simply looking at life from their perspective, both literally and figuratively speaking.