num_pages: 341
description: The best-selling animal advocate Temple Grandin offers the most exciting exploration of how animals feel since The Hidden Life of Dogs.In her groundbreaking and best-selling book Animals in Translation Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her distinguished career as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think act and feel.Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest lifeon their terms not ours.Its usually easy to pinpoint the cause of physical pain in animals but to know what is causing them emotional distress is much harder.Drawing on the latest research and her own workGrandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals.Then she explains how to fulfill them for dogs and cats horses farm animals and zoo animals.Whether its how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day how to keep pigs from being bored or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercisingGrandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures.Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research experimentation and experience.This is essential reading for anyone whos ever owned cared for or simply cared about an animal.
language: English
title: Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt