First Readings By Jorden Hirsch (04/11/10 19:52:31)
I found most of what Jim Nollan discusses in Chapter 1 and 4 of the Man Who Talks to Animals to be very relatable and agreeable to an animal lover like myself. One of the things I did find interesting in the first chapter was Nolan’s’ almost stereotypes of scientist and how they believe they viewed animals. I found his way of grouping scientist and their behavior as one collective thought ironic, in that he was asking us essentially in the book to not think of animals as representations of their species but as individuals, with individual traits and opinions. Other than that I found Nollan’s writing incredibly intriguing, I agree with his point that he as human should not assume that animals communicate in the same ways as we do. It is egotistical of us to think that as one species all these other thousands of species see things our way. I feel like I have seen examples of this when dealing with dogs in my family. Typically when training dogs you use gestural signs or tones/volumes of your voice to communicate, even though most people thing it may be the words your saying that effect the dogs, I believe it’s with the tone that you say certain words that really trigger certain reactions within them.
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