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The octopus scientists : exploring the mind of a mollusk / written by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Keith Ellenbogen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientists in the fieldPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780544232709
  • 0544232704
Subject(s):
Contents:
Meet the octopus team -- An octet of octo facts -- CRIOBE -- How smart is an octopus? -- Making friends with an octopus -- How octopuses change color -- Rainforests of the oceans -- Octopus influence.
Awards:
  • Junior Library Guild selection
Summary: Looks at the work of renowned octopus scientist Jennifer Mather and a team of researchers on the island of Moorea, near Tahiti in the South Pacific, where they work to learn more about octopuses and their behavior.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 594.56 M788 Available 33111008087542
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With three hearts and blue blood, its gelatinous body unconstrained by jointed limbs or gravity, the octopus seems to be an alien, an inhabitant of another world. It's baggy, boneless body sprouts eight arms covered with thousands of suckers--suckers that can taste as well as feel. The octopus also has the powers of a superhero: it can shape-shift, change color, squirt ink, pour itself through the tiniest of openings, or jet away through the sea faster than a swimmer can follow.
But most intriguing of all, octopuses--classed as mollusks, like clams--are remarkably intelligent with quirky personalities. This book, an inquiry into the mind of an intelligent invertebrate, is also a foray into our own unexplored planet. These thinking, feeling creatures can help readers experience and understand our world (and perhaps even life itself) in a new way.

CRIOBE stands for Centre de Researches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement de Polynésie Française (Center for Island Research and Observatory of the French Polynesian Environment).

Middle School.

Accelerated Reader 6.8.

Includes bibliographical references (page 68) and index.

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

Meet the octopus team -- An octet of octo facts -- CRIOBE -- How smart is an octopus? -- Making friends with an octopus -- How octopuses change color -- Rainforests of the oceans -- Octopus influence.

Junior Library Guild selection

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