Find the Right People

“Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

“I get great satisfaction out of doing clever things with my mind, but I don’t know what it is like to feel rapturous joy.”
― Temple Grandin, Thinking In Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life With Autism

“We do know, however that almost no animal routinely kills prey animal on an indiscriminate basis.
The only wild animal I’ve seen who will sometimes violate this rule is the coyote. Most of the time a coyote eats the animals he kills, but occasionally coyotes will go on a lamb-killing spree, killing twenty and eating only one. I believe it’s possible coyotes have lost some of their economy of behavior by living in close proximity to humans and overabundant food supplies. A coyote that kills twenty lambs and eats only one isn’t going to have to trek a hundred miles to find more lambs next week. Any sheep rancher will have several hundred other lambs that will be just as easy to catch later on, and the coyote knows it. Wild coyotes have probably lost the knowledge that you shouldn't waste food or energy.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

“Bad things always happen when an animal is overselected for any single trait. Nature will give you a nasty surprise.”
― Temple Grandin, Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals