Octopus (ePub)
The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
(Sprache: Englisch)
An extensive natural history of the marvelous mollusk, featuring stunning photography, underwater research, and personal narratives.
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance...
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance...
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An extensive natural history of the marvelous mollusk, featuring stunning photography, underwater research, and personal narratives.
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends-from the giant octopus attack in20,000 Leagues Under the Seato Ursula the sea witch inThe Little Mermaid. Yet its true nature is more wondrous still. After decades of research, the authors reveal a sensitive, curious, and playful animal with remarkable intelligence, an ability to defend itself with camouflage and jet propulsion, an intricate nervous system, and advanced problem-solving abilities.
In this beautifully photographed book, three leading marine biologists bring readers face to face with these amazingly complex animals that have fascinated scientists for decades. From the molluscan ancestry of today's octopus to its ingenious anatomy, amazing mating and predatory behaviors, and other-worldly relatives, the authors take readers through the astounding life cycle, uncovering the details of distinctive octopus personalities. With personal narratives, underwater research, stunning closeup photography, and thoughtful guidance for keeping octopuses in captivity,Octopusis the first comprehensive natural history of this smart denizen of the sea.
Praise for Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
"The octopus-strange, mysterious, perfectly camouflaged, able to change texture, color, and shape, bendable, sneaky, and intelligent. I heartily recommend this book." -Jean-Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society
The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends-from the giant octopus attack in20,000 Leagues Under the Seato Ursula the sea witch inThe Little Mermaid. Yet its true nature is more wondrous still. After decades of research, the authors reveal a sensitive, curious, and playful animal with remarkable intelligence, an ability to defend itself with camouflage and jet propulsion, an intricate nervous system, and advanced problem-solving abilities.
In this beautifully photographed book, three leading marine biologists bring readers face to face with these amazingly complex animals that have fascinated scientists for decades. From the molluscan ancestry of today's octopus to its ingenious anatomy, amazing mating and predatory behaviors, and other-worldly relatives, the authors take readers through the astounding life cycle, uncovering the details of distinctive octopus personalities. With personal narratives, underwater research, stunning closeup photography, and thoughtful guidance for keeping octopuses in captivity,Octopusis the first comprehensive natural history of this smart denizen of the sea.
Praise for Octopus: The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate
"The octopus-strange, mysterious, perfectly camouflaged, able to change texture, color, and shape, bendable, sneaky, and intelligent. I heartily recommend this book." -Jean-Michel Cousteau, President, Ocean Futures Society
Autoren-Porträt von Jennifer A. Mather, Roland C. Anderson, James B. Wood
James B. Wood is the director of education at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. An accomplished underwater photographer, he is especially interested in cephalopod behavior, husbandry, and physiology, and science education. Webmaster of The Cephalopod Page (thecephalopodpage.org), one of the longest running biological Web sites, James is a founding executive member of MarineBio.org and a staff member of TONMO.com, an online cephalopod enthusiast community. He has worked with the Census of Marine Life since 1998 and codeveloped a pilot species database for cephalopods, CephBase. He earned his Ph.D. in Biology at Dalhousie University. He was previously an assistant research scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences and an adjunct professor at Duke University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Jennifer A. Mather , Roland C. Anderson , James B. Wood
- 2013, Englisch
- Verlag: Timber Press
- ISBN-10: 1604695005
- ISBN-13: 9781604695007
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2013
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