8: Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin

Oliver Sacks led me here.

The book is all over the place, with bits on cattle behaviour and care, bits on autism and autism treatment, bits (by far the worst) on religion and science, and personal accounts. Interesting, but the last two chapters are rather foolish.

Interesting facts:

gentle pressure on the sides of a piglet will cause it to fall asleep

and

Japanese researchers have found that pressure on the skin produces a relaxed muscle tone and makes animals drowsy. Pigs will roll over and solicit scratching on their bellies when rubbed.

Grandin mentions Papi's Animal Homing, and I rather want to read it, but it's absurdly expensive.