I’m listening to the Audiobook of Temple Gardin’s “Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior“, and am currently on the ninth CD of 10. It just gets better and BETTER. *Please* read/listen to this book !
She’s just revealed that Mozart had a Starling who helped him refine a tune by adjusting sharps to flats, that whales use RHYME in their poetry and that *music* and *melody* couple at the crux of cross-species communication.
YAHESS !!!!
As an otherwise troubled and troublesome tot, Temple could hum back Bach (bettererer than them there hump-backed bards) and singing gets THROUGH to other Autistic children…… presumably in the same incisive way that a modulated, melodious enthused intonation can help you get the best out of any beast.
Both of my wolflings have been HIGHLY vocal and I expect nothing less.
Off for a noisy romp…. !
Hi,
Just read her book as well. Very happy about the singing, when I try to explain why I love to sing I always say it’s because when you sing, you can not lie, impossible, when you sing about love you are in love, when you sing about anger, you are angry. God I love singing, it is so underestimated, am happy to have read the book, it’s a ‘true’ book.