Many things under a rock the mysteries of octopuses

"A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors. Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David...

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Main Author: Scheel, David (Author)
Other Authors: Scheel, Laurel (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The inner lives of octopuses
  • 1: WHERE ARE THEY? Missing octopuses. Starting out in Alaska ; Dangerous giants ; Lost home
  • Finding octopuses. Our cousin octopuses ; Octopuses overrun
  • Missing octopuses again. Global octopuses ; Octopuses seized
  • 2: WANT. Tracking octopuses. Octopus scraps ; Octopus tools
  • Watching octopuses. Storied octopuses ; Octopus adept
  • 3: REACH. Sensation and the grasp of octopuses. Seeing octopuses ; Reaching octopuses ; Sensational octopuses
  • Octopus cognition. Constant octopuses ; Dreaming octopuses
  • 4: REVELATION. Solitary octopuses. Octopus hungry and afraid ; Octopus cannibal ; Octopuses in wild relationships
  • Society octopuses. Gathering octopuses ; Octopus quidnuncs ; Octopuses in domestic relationships.