While the octopus don’t mind having their photo taken, please do not use the flash they don’t like that.

We invite anyone visiting the aquarium to submit a digital photo for an online exhibit. The book is a fascinating, eye-opening read for anyone interested in. Written by Sy Montgomery, a renowned naturalist and author of 28 books for adults and children, Soul was a Finalist for the National Book Award. Ruddy was particularly photogenic as she like to hang out in the front corner of the tank. The Soul of an Octopus is, as its subtitle aptly describes, a surprising exploration into the wonders of consciousness. The octopus in this photo is Ruddy who was a New England Aquarium resident octopus in 2019. Further information about events and activities for Falmouth Reads 2022 will be coming soon. One night Inky climbed from his tank and slipped through an overflow drainage pipe, escaping back into the ocean!Īs we read The Soul of an Octopus and Inky’s Great Escape, we invite the community to borrow library passes to visit the New England Aquarium. We will encourage children to read Inky’s Great Escape, the fascinating story of Inky, an octopus at the National Aquarium in New Zealand. We are happy to announce that The Soul of an Octopus: a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, by Sy Montgomery, has been chosen as the. After reading this book your feelings about

Sy Montgomery worked as a volunteer at the New England Aquarium in Boston and developed a unique understanding and connection with their resident octopus. Of the octopus-a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature-and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.” The Soul of an Octopus is described as a book that “explores the emotional and physical world

By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.We are happy to announce that The Soul of an Octopus: a Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness, by Sy Montgomery, has been chosen as the Falmouth Reads title for 2022. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” ( Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan jetting water to bounce balls and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities-gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. N pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism.

The soul of an octopus