A Key to Animal Behavior

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Temple Grandin, one of the nation’s top designers of livestock facilities. She has a unique insight into animal thinking: she’s autistic. “In her 1995 book Thinking in Pictures, she described how her inner-autistic world led her to develop an empathy for how animals cope.” Her new book is Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.

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