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"Mind-blowing and soul-expanding." --Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.
Brief description: David Scheel, professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University, has researched the behavior and ecology of octopuses for over twenty-five years. He starred, with Heidi the Octopus and his daughter Laurel, in PBS's Octopus: Making Contact. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
Review Quotes: In Scheel's many years of study and discovery for Many Things Under a Rock, indigenous science and stories are given equal weight with Western science.... The book abounds with wonders.... It is the elegance of an octopus's movement, the shape-shifting and colouration of the creatures, that Scheel finds so beguiling.--Kathleen Jamie "New Statesman"