{"product_id":"the-soul-of-an-octopus-hard-cover","title":"The Soul of an Octopus [HARD COVER]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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?\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSalient Features:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuirky 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnimal\/human interaction of a most unusual and heartwarming flavour - makes for an unusual gift\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45714209046785,"sku":"327AHCLJ5-Used","price":199.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/1_858c5875-8c8d-4213-8538-21aee4745f40.jpg?v=1730545821","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/the-soul-of-an-octopus-hard-cover","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}