On Wednesday night, the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College welcomed a storyteller who has danced with octopi and been chased by silverback gorillas. Sy Montgomery, whose pen has chronicled the ...

Nov. 2—Sy Montgomery has communed with golden moon bears in Southeast Asia, pink dolphins in South America and great apes in Africa. She has shown us the "Soul of an Octopus" and "How to be a Good ...

Athena : encountering the mind of a mollusk -- Octavia : this shouldn't be happening : tasting pain, seeing dreams -- Kali : the fellowship of the fishes -- Eggs : beginning, ending, and ...

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Octopuses are “geniuses,” Sy Montgomery tells us in “Secrets of the Octopus.” They are tricksters and masters of disguise, with eight arms and nine brains. Ms. Montgomery’s book made its way from the ...