Author: Christine Zuchora-Walske
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0822536374
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Introduces the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of the giant octopus.

Author: Leon Gray
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 161772730X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Introduces the Giant Pacific octopus, describing its physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and the ways in which it defends itself against its predators.

Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501161148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “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, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. 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.

Author: Karen Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406312829
Category : Octopus
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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"Jet through the ocean with a gentle mother giant octupus as she searches for a den where she can safely lay her precious eggs"--Back cover.

Author: James A. Cosgrove
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Super Suckers is the culmination of over forty years of undersea photography and groundbreaking research about the largest known octopus species in the world, the giant Pacific octopus. Cosgrove and McDaniel present previously unpublished biological behavior and a startling collection of octopus myths, legends, and anecdotes from aquarists and divers of the pacific coast.

Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477762612
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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One can change its color and texture; the other has tooth-like structures in each sucker; and both have beak-like mouths. With this book’s concise anatomy breakdowns, wealth of detailed information, and array of impressive underwater photographs, readers will become familiar with the similarities and differences between the giant squid and octopus.

Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1477762647
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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One can change its color and texture; the other has tooth-like structures in each sucker; and both have beak-like mouths. With this book’s concise anatomy breakdowns, wealth of detailed information, and array of impressive underwater photographs, readers will become familiar with the similarities and differences between the giant squid and octopus.

Author: Otto Latva
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000910482
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It exposes the present understanding of the human relationship with the giant squid not only as too simplistic but also as historically inaccurate. For instance, it redefines the earlier understanding that humans and especially seafarers have understood giant squid as horror-evoking and ugly creatures since the dawn of history and explains the origins of mythical sea monsters such as the Kraken. The book is, however, more than a critical response to previous work. It will point out that animals such as cephalopods, which have largely been defined in biological contexts in recent times, have a fascinating and multivariate past, entangled with the history of humans in many remarkable ways. Hence, this book is not just about perceptions of giant-sized squid or cephalopods, but a historical inquiry into the transatlantic culture from the late eighteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. It will provide new knowledge about the history of mollusc studies, seafaring culture and more broadly of the relationship between humans and animals during the period.

Author: Candace Fleming
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596435992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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"A nonfiction picture book exploring the mysterious life of the elusive giant squid"--

Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544232704
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 85

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Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.