UC Davis' International Animal Welfare Training Institute announced that it is hosting animal behaviorist and author Temple Grandin for a public lecture and book signing on March 2.

Her talk is scheduled at 7 p.m. in Freeborn Hall; tickets are $10, available at the campus box office at Freeborn Hall, and at tickets.com.

Before and after her talk, organizers said, Grandin will sign copies of her best-selling Animals Make Us Human, and her other books, too.

Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, and she consults with the livestock industry on animal handling and facility design, and animal welfare.

Her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior explains how she links her autism with her keen insight into how animals think, act and feel. She also has written Thinking in Pictures, Livestock Handling and Transport and Genetics and Behavior of Domestic Animals.

In her talk next week at UC Davis, Grandin is expected to discuss how people can fulfill the specific needs of dogs, cats, horses, wildlife, and farm and zoo animals, and how to observe their happiness, as if by looking through their eyes.

The International Animal Welfare Training Institute, a new organization within the School of Veterinary Medicine, focuses on developing science-based solutions
related to companion animal well-being, livestock welfare, care and
health of shelter animals, and emergency response for animals during
disasters.

All seminars and colloquia.