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Sy Montgomery

American Writer

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When I would visit my octopus friend, Octavia, at New England aquarium, usually she would look me in the face, flow right over to see me, and flush red with emotion when she took my arms in hers. Often when I'd stroke her she'd turn white beneath my touch, the colour of a relaxed octopus. Sy Montgomery

Me Face White Beneath Took Hers Flush Relaxed Visit Stroke Would See Touch Emotion Colour Red Over New Look She Arms New England Octopus Friend Often Turn England Her Right Flow

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls. Sy Montgomery

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own. Sy Montgomery

Mind Own Fact Neurons Arm Arms Octopus Brain Each

I heard one story about an octopus in a home tank who would get out, cruise around the house, take knick-knacks, and drag them back to its tank. Like a dog! They're so smart that there are octopus enrichment handbooks so you don't bore your octopus. I've seen them play with Legos, Mr. Potato Head, you name it! Sy Montgomery

Home You Dog Smart Seen Back Enrichment Out Would Bore About Potato Take Cruise Head Name Like House Around Octopus Tank Heard Get Story Them Your Who Play Drag

I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange. Sy Montgomery

Strange Alien Sci-Fi Always Loved

Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart - even when the people are dressed identically - just by looking up at them through the water. Sy Montgomery

People Water Looking Tell Dressed Individual Through Prove Up Just Experiments Apart Them Even Seattle Humans

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape. Sy Montgomery

You Heart Fight Dark Fear Increases Pumping Run Pupils See Rate More Purpose Clearly Does Blood Heart Rate Escape Get Oxygen Which Sent Fuel Body Use Your Your Body Help Prepares Away Fast Lungs Muscles

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