Your cart is empty.
  • Home

    The soul of an octopus : a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness / Sy Montgomery.

    By: Montgomery, Sy [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Atria Books, May 2015Edition: First Atria books hardcover editionDescription: 261 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781451697711; 1451697716; 9781451697728; 1451697724Subject(s): Animal communication | Octopuses -- Behavior | Octopuses -- Behavior | NATURE -- Animals -- Marine Life | SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Marine Biology | NATURE -- General | Octopuses -- Behavior | Human-animal relationshipsGenre/Form: Reportage literature.DDC classification: 594/.56 LOC classification: QL430.3.O2 | M66 2015Other classification: NAT020000 | SCI039000 | NAT000000 | NAT020000 | SCI039000
    Contents:
    Athena : encountering the mind of a mollusk -- Octavia : this shouldn't be happening : tasting pain, seeing dreams -- Kali : the fellowship of the fishes -- Eggs : beginning, ending, and shape-shifting -- Transformation : the art of breathing in the ocean -- Exit : freedom, desire, and escape -- Karma : choice, destiny, and love -- Consciousness : to think, to feel, to know.
    Summary: "In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced 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 color-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"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"-- Provided by publisher.
    Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
        Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
    Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
    Books Books Female Library
    		QL430.3.O2 .M66 2015 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) 1 Available STACKS 51952000214373
    Books Books Main Library
    		QL430.3.O2 .M66 2015 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) 1 Available STACKS 51952000214366

    "In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus--a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature--and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect," about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced 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 color-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"-- Provided by publisher.

    "An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"-- Provided by publisher.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Athena : encountering the mind of a mollusk -- Octavia : this shouldn't be happening : tasting pain, seeing dreams -- Kali : the fellowship of the fishes -- Eggs : beginning, ending, and shape-shifting -- Transformation : the art of breathing in the ocean -- Exit : freedom, desire, and escape -- Karma : choice, destiny, and love -- Consciousness : to think, to feel, to know.

    1 2

    There are no comments on this title.

    to post a comment.