The soul of the octopus review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() You get to see her evolving interest and fascination in the creatures she meets, and there’s very little that’s more interesting than riding in someone’s head while they talk about their passions. ![]() During the course of the book, she becomes a frequent visitor at an aquarium and takes up scuba diving, observing octopuses in their natural habitat. The book is loosely structured around the various octopuses that the author has met, from initial tentative acquaintance to eventual friendship. ![]() It’s also an exploration of how intelligent an octopus actually is, and the extent to which we can form meaningful relationships with them. The Soul of an Octopus is Sy Montgomery’s account of her own fascination with the creatures. They taste with their skin and think with their arms. Octopuses (or octopodes, but never octopi) are fascinating and beautiful creatures, perhaps the most intelligent and most alien of all the other species on the planet. ![]()
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