“The bliss of stroking an octopus’s head is difficult to convey to most people, even to animal lovers.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“As with a child, to commune with Athena demands a level of openness and intuition greater than that used in the usual discourse between… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I was warmly amused at the way each one tried to outdo the others in showing how her ape was the “most human”—trying to… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Octopuses and their relatives have what Woods Hole researcher Roger Hanlon calls electric skin. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“They don’t want to hear how Octavia is different from us. They want to know how we’re the same. They know what it’s like… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Assessing the mind of a creature this alien demands that we be extraordinary flexible in our own thinking. Marine biologist James Wood suggests our… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The affection the aquarists felt for the octopus appeared to be mutual. For the hours that they swam together, though the massive octopus could… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The self,” Blackmore writes, “is just a fleeting impression that arises with each experience and fades away again. . . . There is no inner self,” she… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.” — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment to human.'… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Human relationships with predators have always been thorny. Predators are the first creatures our kind purposely eradicates. Too often, people feel humans are and… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
