In this non-fiction story the author, Sy Montgomery, details her journey through many trips to the New England Aquarium as she makes friends with humans and octopuses alike. Octopus Karma at the New Englad Aquarium, January 2017. It was like hearing a story from a science friend who wants to keep you informed with all their experiences, as well as share everything they learned with you. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery has an excellent balance of story telling and fact sharing. The soul of an octopus: a surprising exploration into the wonder of consciousness. 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.MONTGOMERY, S. Montgomery chronicles this growing appreciation of the octopus, but also tells a love story. 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. 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? 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. 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.
It went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. 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.
There is clearly something about the octopus’s weird beauty that fires the imaginations of explorers, scientists, writers' Daily Mail
'Charming and moving.with extraordinary scientific research' Guardian '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
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