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its non-fiction, but fascinating
I've been reading a non-fiction book that is really good called "Animals In Translation". It's written by an autistic woman (Temple Grandin) who is an animal scientist and she figures that being autistic helps her understand how animals see and also think to some degree. It's about behavior and how the brain works -- ours and theirs - and has a lot of surprising info in it. For example, did you know that Mozart got a lot of his ideas from his pet starling? He actually wrote out the changes the bird made to his compositions and gave the bird credit for improvements. And did you know that domesticating dogs has actually held them back to the maturity level of a 3 month old wolf pup? Did you know that crows can not only use tools but make them? I'll write more about it later if you would like.
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Re: its non-fiction, but fascinating
That does sound interesting, especially about the crows!
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Re: its non-fiction, but fascinating
"I'll write more about it later if you would like."
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6/7/2007, 5:29 pm
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I am sure we would all love to hear more stars.
