Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growingĪppreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. Passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. Now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the Recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but Jetting water to bounce balls and endlessly tricking companions with Her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan Octopuses with strikingly different personalities-gentle Athena,Īssertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. The reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended Solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has About fifty hands went up."And do they have personalities?" Like a unanimous vote at a town meeting came the emphatic answer: "Yes!" "How many of you keep octopuses?" Jennifer asked the crowd during her keynote speech, the first after Roland's introduction. I had a date with a giant Pacific octopus. But I quit the blessed sunlight for the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium. On a rare, warm day in mid-March, when the snow was melting into mud in New Hampshire, I traveled to Boston, where everyone was strolling along the harbor or sitting on benches licking ice cream cones. Title: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
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