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The Soul of an Octopus [HARD COVER]

The Soul of an Octopus [HARD COVER]

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In 2011 Sy Montgomery wrote a feature for Orion magazine entitled 'Deep Intellect' about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death. It went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like crea-tures. Since then Sy has practised true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters. Octopuses have varied personalities and intelligence they show in myriad ways: endless trickery to escape enclosures and get food; jetting water play-fully to bounce objects like balls; and evading caretakers by using a scoop net as a trampoline and running around the floor on eight arms. But with a beak like a parrot, venom like a snake and a tongue covered with teeth, how can such a being know anything? And what sort of thoughts could it think?
The intelligence of dogs, birds and chimpanzees was only recently accept-ed by scientists, who now are establishing the intelligence of the octopus, watching them solve problems and deciphering the meaning of their colour-changing camouflage techniques. Montgomery chronicles this growing appreciation of the octopus, but also tells a love story. By turns funny, en-tertaining, touching and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about consciousness and the meeting of two very different minds.

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  • Quirky yet profoundly illuminating nat-ural history portrait of the world and per-sonality of the octopus, as written by a scientist who has studied the creatures for many years
  • Animal/human interaction of a most unusual and heartwarming flavour - makes for an unusual gift
  • The octopus is held in great affection by the legions of fans of undersea wildlife and this is possibly the most thorough study of them ever undertaken for a gen-eral audience

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