As title says, looking for a really good / easy to read book about octopi. I liked the film ‘My Octopus Teacher’ so maybe something like that, or about how octopi work (their brains etc!). I don’t want a text book though, I need it to be laid out like fiction with a bit of a story as I’m not great with sticking with non-fiction books.
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What about fiction about an octopus that’s just really, really good? Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.
The Soul of The Octopus by Sy Montgomery
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.
Edit: I did a poor copy and paste