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Temple Grandin: How Cattle See, Overcoming Barriers as Woman #shorts

4 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Temple Grandin watched cattle in 1970s Arizona and noticed they spooked at shadows. As an autistic woman in a male-dominated field, she had to be exceptional to be heard. Her visual thinking let her see what others missed in how animals perceive their surroundings.

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The first thing I noticed in going around all the feed yards in Arizona was cattle would balk at little shadows and things like that. And I often get asked what was the biggest barrier in the early '70s. I can tell you, being a woman, autism was a non-issue. I had to be really, really good at what I do. But since I was a visual thinker and I didn't know my thinking was different when I did my first studies, back in the '70s. I noticed cattle notice little things that people tend to not notice. I often get asked, are the cattle afraid of getting slaughtered?