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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">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. [Popular naturalist Sy] Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Soul of an Octopus</span> reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.</span><br>
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<div style=""><font color="#212121" face="Arial">[T]his “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” 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. – <span style="font-style: italic;">Daily Beast</span></font></div>
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<div style=""><font color="#212121" face="Arial">“A captivating book on an intelligence as ‘alien’ as one from outer space. And its not science fiction.” – Bernd Heinrich, author of <span style="font-style: italic;">Mind of the Raven</span></font></div>
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"Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of
Consciousness" by Peter Godfrey-Smith (who is mentioned in "The Soul
of an Octopus").<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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