The Sucker, the Sucker!
Amia Srinivasan: What’s it like to be an octopus?, 7 September 2017
Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life
by Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Collins, 255 pp., £20, March 2017,978 0 00 822627 5 Show More
by Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Collins, 255 pp., £20, March 2017,
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
by Sy Montgomery.
Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., £8.99, April 2016,978 1 4711 4675 6 Show More
by Sy Montgomery.
Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., £8.99, April 2016,
“... with a malignant will, what can be more horrible? Octopuses are indeed glutinous; according to Sy Montgomery, author of the splendid Soul of an Octopus, the slime on an octopus’s skin feels like a cross between drool and snot. But the octopus’s will is far from malignant, at least when it comes to humans. Octopuses do occasionally attack ... ”
