Animal Research

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 life - on their terms, not ours. Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience.

Why do three out of four professional football players go bankrupt? How can illiterate jungle dwellers pass a test that tricks Harvard philosophers? And why do billionaires work so hard - only to give their hard-earned money away? When it comes to making decisions, the classic view is that humans are eminently rational. But growing evidence suggests instead that our choices are often irrational, biased, and occasionally even moronic. Which view is right - or is there another possibility?

From beloved family companions to therapy animals, search and rescue canines, and other animals who help their human partners heal, learn, and grow, there are compelling reasons to believe that animals and people are inextricably and deeply connected to one another. With stories and research about horses who heal, dogs who help children read, cats who save the lives of their owners, and pigs, sheep, ducks, and llamas who help reduce stress and lift the spirits of people, Beall shows how animals are in action across the United States at nursing homes, at hospitals, and at rehabilitation ...

Dogs are disappearing. Lucy Hickey-Rios, the Executive Director of Mercy Animal Shelter, is used to reuniting lost dogs with their owners. This is different. More than two dozen dogs have vanished in a matter of days. Lucy and her crew are desperate to find those responsible and return the dogs to their families. Why were they taken? Can Lucy get them back? Just how far will the dognappers go to stop her?

Harry Harlow, a controversial pioneer in developmental psychology, irrevocably changed our understanding of love's vital role in healthy development. Through his groundbreaking — and often shocking — experiments with rhesus monkeys, Harlow demonstrated the crucial importance of nurturing touch and social connection. This book delves into the profound influence of Harlow's work: The Wire Mother Experiments: Understand how baby monkeys clung desperately to cloth-covered "mothers," even when only wire mothers provided milk, revealing deep-seated needs beyond basic survival. The Impact of ...