Octopus
The Ocean's Intelligent Invertebrate: A Natural History
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 wit…
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Weitere Autoren: Anderson, Roland C / Wood, James B.
- ISBN: 978-1-60469-500-7
- EAN: 9781604695007
- Produktnummer: 36639087
- Verlag: Workman Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
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.
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