That's her thing. She has made a living consulting on animal behaviour for the design of animal handling processes such as slaughterhouses. She was good at it a

That's her thing. She has made a living consulting on animal behaviour for the design of animal handling processes such as slaughterhouses. She was good at it and people valued her insight into small details that would bother the animals. She also writes about her experience being autistic and her ideas about cognition from her unusual perspective. I have met her and had a chance to chat, have lunch, etc, and hear her give a technical talk on designing animal handling systems. She's very smart, competent and confident. Her autism makes her quite a strange person to hang out with. Her overly bold statements and confidence could be part of that, but it's not so unusual for professors, writers and similar types to behave that way. But she honestly believes she is missing some of the particular human stuff, while still being very bright, and thus has unusual intuition into non-human animal cognition. It's hard to provide evidence for this, of course. In summary: not trite at all, but indeed a bold, interesting and controversial claim. (Edit, caveat: I last met her 19 years ago and have not kept up with her work since)