Dr. Temple Grandin has devoted much of her career to improving the treatment of livestock animals. Her advocacy for their improved conditions and handling has gained her an ardent following — her latest book Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals is now a bestseller and Claire Danes plays her in a soon-to-be-released HBO biopic. She talks with NPR’s Neal Conan about her work and how her own experience with autism has influenced her research.
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Temple Grandin: A Life Devoted To Animals
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Temple Grandin On ‘The Best Life For Animals’
In her new book, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.
One of the nation’s top designers of livestock facilities, Grandin also happens to be autistic. Her previous books include Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior and Thinking in Pictures.
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Temple Grandin: A Key to Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin is one of the nation’s top designers of livestock facilities. She is also 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.
Temple Grandin is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her new book is Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.
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Temple Grandin: The Woman Who Talks to Animals
Temple Grandin is one of the nation’s leading animal behaviorists. Her revolutionary designs for animal equipment have changed beef production and made it more humane — from the way cattle arrive at feedyards to how cows are eventually processed at the slaughterhouse.
Grandin, who is autistic, didn’t talk until she was 3 years old — and then she communicated mainly through screaming and yelling. Instead of institutionalizing Grandin, her parents placed her in highly structured schools, where she eventually thrived.
Grandin has talked with Fresh Air on several occasions, describing how her autism has allowed her to develop an empathy towards animals; she explained in more detail in her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior.
On Feb. 6, a full-length film based on her life will premiere on HBO. Starring Claire Danes in the title role, the film explores themes from two of Grandin’s books, Emergence and Thinking in Pictures. Grandin is currently an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
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