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SY MONTGOMERY - GEBRAUCHT THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPU...

' Sy Montgomery’s  The Soul of an Octopus  does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s  H
Is for Hawk  did for raptors'   New Statesman   ' Charming and moving...with
extraordinary scientific research'  Guardian   ' An engaging work of natural science...
There is clearly something about the octopus’s weird beauty that fires the imaginations of
explorers  scientists  writers'  Daily Mail    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 creatures. 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 playfully 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 accepted 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  entertaining  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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