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Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion newspaper part, "Deep Intellect", about her a friendly relationship with a delicate, sweet-natured octopus called Athena and the grief she thought at her fatality, gone viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these incomprehensible, almost alien-like animals. Since that time Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New Britain aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf coast of florida, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters. Octopuses have varied personalities and cleverness they show in myriad ways: unlimited trickery to flee enclosures and get food; jetting drinking water playfully to jump objects like balls; and evading caretakers by using a scoop net as a trampoline and running around the ground on eight forearms. But with a beak like a parrot, venom like a snake, and a tongue covered with teeth, how do such a being know anything? And what type of thoughts could it think? The cleverness of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees was only lately accepted by researchers, who now are creating the cleverness of the octopus, watching them solve problems and deciphering this is of the color-changing camouflage techniques. Montgomery chronicles this growing gratitude of the octopus, but also says a love tale. By becomes funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of any Octopus uncovers what octopuses can instruct us about consciousness and the meeting of two very different minds.
