- Animal behavior, Human-animal relationships, Autism, Large type books
An animal scientist draws on her experience as an autistic to identify commonalities between animals and autistics, offering insight into how animals process sensory information and how they often possess unrecognized savant-level talents.
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- Author
- Temple Grandin
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Scribner, Thorndike Press, Harcourt
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743247696
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“People who aren't autistic always ask me about the moment I realized I could understand the way animals think.”
An American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior.
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