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Temple Grandin on Creating the Best Life for Animals
Wed., Jan. 14, 6:45 p.m.
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What’s the healthiest environment for a dog who’s alone most of the day? How do you keep a pig from being bored? Is a lion pacing in the zoo miserable or just exercising? How can we know what causes emotional distress in an animal?

These and other questions are answered by renowned animal behaviorist and scientist Temple Grandin. In a presentation drawing on her latest research, experimentation, and experience, she identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them for dogs, cats, horses, farm animals, and zoo animals. Her life-long experience with autism has given her a unique perspective and insight into animal behavior. She won worldwide acclaim for revolutionizing animal movement systems and spearheaded reform of the quality of life and humaneness of death for farm animals.

Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and the author of Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Animals Make Us Human (Harcourt) is available for signing after the program.


CODE: 1J0-503

LOCATION:
Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium
Freer Gallery of Art
12th & Independence Ave., SW
(Enter on Independence Avenue side)
Quick Tix Code: 1J0-503