Temple Grandin's Guide to Working with Farm Animals

Temple Grandin's Guide to Working with Farm Animals
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1612127444

Award-winning author Temple Grandin is famous for her groundbreaking approach to decoding animal behavior. Now she extends her expert guidance to small-scale farming operations. Grandin’s fascinating explanations of how herd animals think — describing their senses, fears, instincts, and memories — and how to analyze their behavior, will help you handle your livestock more safely and effectively. You’ll learn to become a skilled observer of animal movement and behavior, and detailed illustrations will help you set up simple and efficient facilities for managing a small herd of 3 to 25 cattle or pigs, or 5 to 100 goats or sheep.

Temple Grandin and Livestock Management

Temple Grandin and Livestock Management
Author: Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher: 21st Century Junior Library: W
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781534132344

"Temple Grandin and Livestock Management examines the life of this ... woman and her contributions to the livestock industry"--

Improving Animal Welfare

Improving Animal Welfare
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2020-12-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1789245214

Completely revised, updated and with four new chapters on sustainability, new technologies, precision agriculture and the future of animal welfare. This book is edited by an outstanding world expert on animal welfare, it emphasizes throughout the importance of measuring conditions that compromise welfare, such as lameness, heat stress, body condition, and bruises during transport.The book combines scientific information with practical recommendations for use on commercial operations and reviews practical information on livestock handling, euthanasia, slaughter, pain relief, and assessments of abnormal behavior.

Humane Livestock Handling

Humane Livestock Handling
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1603420282

Provides a guide for handling livestock animals, focusing on more humane treatment techniques, and discusses planning and designing a handling facility, corral and loading ramp layouts for ranches, and other related topics.

Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals

Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0124055087

Behavior is shaped by both genetics and experience--nature and nurture. This book synthesizes research from behavioral genetics and animal and veterinary science, bridging the gap between these fields. The objective is to show that principles of behavioral genetics have practical applications to agricultural and companion animals. The continuing domestication of animals is a complex process whose myriad impacts on animal behavior are commonly under-appreciated. Genetic factors play a significant role in both species-specific behaviors and behavioral differences exhibited by individuals in the same species. Leading authorities explore the impact of increased intensities of selection on domestic animal behavior. Rodents, cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, herding and guard dogs, and poultry are all included in these discussions of genetics and behavior, making this book useful to veterinarians, livestock producers, laboratory animal researchers and technicians, animal trainers and breeders, and any researcher interested in animal behavior. - Includes four new chapters on dog and fox behavior, pig behavior, the effects of domestication and horse behavior - Synthesizes research from behavioral genetics, animal science, and veterinary literature - Broaches fields of behavior genetics and behavioral research - Includes practical applications of principles discovered by behavioral genetics researchers - Covers many species ranging from pigs, dogs, foxes, rodents, cattle, horses, and cats

Livestock Handling and Transport

Livestock Handling and Transport
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Cab International
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781845932190

This book brings together the latest research data and practical information on animal handling, restraint methods and the design of facilities and transport. Published 14 years after the first edition, the third edition is fully updated with the latest research findings. An extensively revised introductory chapter covers the increasing awareness of animal welfare around the world and outlines the effective auditing programmes of large, corporate meat buyers. Three new authors have chapters on sheep transport, biosecurity and low-stress methods for sorting cattle and weaning calves. To provide an additional perspective on livestock management in South America, Asia, India and other regions, two new co-authors have been added to the chapters on cattle transport and the handling of cattle raised in close association with people. The best of the old material - including all the popular handling system layouts and behaviour diagrams - has been kept. All aspects of animal handling are covered, such as handling for veterinary and husbandry procedures, stress physiology, restraint methods, transport, corral and stockyard design, handling at slaughter plants and welfare. The principles of animal behaviour are covered for cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, deer and poultry. The extensive reference lists in each chapter will help preserve important knowledge that may not be available on the Internet. Also, at the end of the book is an index of useful web pages on handling, behaviour and transport. This book is an invaluable resource for students and professionals in animal behaviour, applied psychology and animal and veterinary sciences, and livestock producers, regulatory bodies and animal welfare groups.

Animals in Translation

Animals in Translation
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2009-08-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1439130841

With unique personal insight, experience, and hard science, Animals in Translation is the definitive, groundbreaking work on animal behavior and psychology. Temple Grandin’s professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field of animal science. Grandin and coauthor Catherine Johnson present their powerful theory that autistic people can often think the way animals think—putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate “animal talk.” Exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and even animal genius, Grandin is a faithful guide into their world. Animals in Translation reveals that animals are much smarter than anyone ever imagined, and Grandin, standing at the intersection of autism and animals, offers unparalleled observations and extraordinary ideas about both.

An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0345805887

From the bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat • Fascinating portraits of neurological disorder in which men, women, and one extraordinary child emerge as brilliantly adaptive personalities, whose conditions have not so much debilitated them as ushered them into another reality. Here are seven detailed narratives of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller.

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin
Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547733933

When Temple Grandin was born, her parents knew that she was different. Years later she was diagnosed with autism. While Temple’s doctor recommended a hospital, her mother believed in her. Temple went to school instead. Today, Dr. Temple Grandin is a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University. Her world-changing career revolutionized the livestock industry. As an advocate for autism, Temple uses her experience as an example of the unique contributions that autistic people can make. This compelling biography complete with Temple’s personal photos takes us inside her extraordinary mind and opens the door to a broader understanding of autism.

Making Animals Happy

Making Animals Happy
Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Animal behavior
ISBN: 9781408800829

'The modern day Doctor Dolittle' (Guardian), bestselling author of Animals in Translation, investigates the secrets of mental health in animals.