In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. 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. 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.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. 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. 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.

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Welcome to a forest filled with water. In the wet season, the swollen Amazon becomes a looking glass into another world, where pink dolphins swim like something from a dream. In Peru they are called bufeo colorado-the ruddy dolphin. Their color ranges from white to gray to a vivid pink. These astonishing mammals, actually river-dwelling whales, easily navigate their way through the complex, hazardous world of the Amazon rain forest. Encantado invites readers on the adventure of a lifetime as we travel into one of the world's most lush and beautiful jungles in search of these magical creatures. Our guides include scientists and researchers as well as the local people, who have lived with the encantados-the enchanted ones-literally at their doorsteps for centuries. Our main guides are the dolphins themselves. They lead us into myth. They take us back in time to a prehistoric era. They alone can show us the depth of the Amazon's beauty, diversity, and magic-and help us to keep our planet rich and whole.

Encantado - Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal ("the Everglades on steroids") haven't seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous "you are there" descriptions of fieldwork, and gadget lovers will revel in the high-tech science at play, from microchips to the camera traps that capture the "soap opera" of tapir life.

The Tapir Scientist - Saving South America's Largest Mammal

Sauvage, prédatrice, monstrueuse : la pieuvre alimente dans l'imaginaire collectif les peurs et les légendes les plus tenaces. De l'aquarium de Boston aux récifs coralliens de Polynésie, l'auteure est allée à la rencontre de ces créatures mystérieuses, point de départ d'une amitié unique en son genre. La douce Athéna, Octavia l'agitée, Kali la curieuse ou encore Karma et sa joie de vivre : chaque pieuvre fait montre d'une remarquable intelligence, que ce soit pour s'échapper de son bassin, changer de couleur selon ses humeurs, dénouer des énigmes complexes...Au fil de ses interactions aussi surprenantes qu'émouvantes, et à l'aide de données scientifiques passionnantes, l'auteure nous dévoile à quel point cet invertébré nous ressemble et a tout à nous apprendre.Récit joyeux et profond, cet ouvrage a conquis des milliers de lecteurs de par le monde.

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The Soul of an Octopus - A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

A 2007 Sibert Honor Book  It looks like a bear, but isn't one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey- but isn't a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but what's a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschie's tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guinea's cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.

The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo - An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

Considered the "lungs of the world, " the Amazon provides a full fifth of the world's oxygen, and every year unsustainable human practices destroy 2.7 million acres. What can be done to help? That's where Project Piaba comes in.       Join the award-winning author Sy Montgomery and the photographer Keith Ellenbogen as they traverse the river and rainforest to discover how tiny fish, called piabas, can help preserve the Amazon, its animals, and the rich legacy of its people. Amazon Adventure is an eye-opening-and ultimately hopeful-exploration of how humanity's practices are affecting and shaping not only the Amazon, but our entire environment.

Amazon Adventure - How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World's Largest Rainforest

«  Ceux qui liront ce livre découvriront l'âme des océans.  » Peter Wohlleben, auteur de La Vie secrète des arbres Sauvage, solitaire, prédatrice, monstrueuse  : dans l'imaginaire collectif, la pieuvre alimente depuis longtemps les peurs et les légendes les plus tenaces. Sy Montgomery, journaliste et naturaliste, a décidé de se confronter au mythe. De l'aquarium de Boston aux récifs coralliens de la Polynésie française en passant par le golfe du Mexique, elle est allée à la rencontre de ces créatures fascinantes, point de départ d'une amitié unique en son genre. La douce Athéna, la remuante Octavia, Kali la curieuse ou encore Karma et sa joie de vivre  : chaque pieuvre qu'elle observe fait montre d'une remarquable intelligence, que ce soit pour s'échapper de son bassin, changer de couleur en fonction de ses besoins, s'amuser avec des balles, se jouer de verrous complexes ou piéger son humain préféré pour obtenir plus de nourriture.

Au fil de ses interactions parfois impressionnantes mais toujours attachantes, et à l'aide de données scientifiques passionnantes, l'auteur déconstruit petit à petit l'image terrifiante de la pieuvre pour nous dévoiler la redoutable intelligence de cet animal et son niveau de conscience si élevé qu'il s'avère bien plus proche de l'humain que l'on se l'imagine.

Récit joyeux et profond, portrait touchant de pieuvres et des passionnés qui s'occupent d'elles au quotidien, L'Âme d'une pieuvre nous prouve que les pieuvres ont tout à nous apprendre, non seulement sur elles, mais aussi sur nous-mêmes.

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