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Essay Are Animals Autistic Savants? * Giorgio Vallortigara , Allan Snyder, Gisela Kaplan, Patrick Bateson, Nicola S. Clayton, Lesley J. Rogers imilarities in behaviour between stimuli, as opposed to categories and animals experience unique physical autistic savants and animals higher-level concepts, and can thereby and psychological conditions that can Shave been suggested, most make performance more savant- be stressful and even distressing, their notably by Temple Grandin [1] like in both humans and animals. mental processes may be quite different in her book Animals in Translation (Editors note: See Box 1 for Grandin’s from those of wild animals. We wish (2005), and this theory seems to have response.) to address the question of animals as gained some consensus among other autistic savants in the broad context Do Animals Think like Autistic neuroscientists who are not specialists of animal behaviour in the natural in animal cognition. Here we aim to Savants? environment. discuss two specific parallels between When Grandin proposed similarities A possible relationship between the behavioural characteristics of in cognition between autistic savants the thinking of autistics and that animals and those of autistic savants and animals, she reasoned on the basis of nonhuman animals has b