Author: David Scheel
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9781324076292
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.
Many Things Under a Rock
Author: David Scheel
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9781324076292
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9781324076292
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discoveries, adventures, and new scientific understanding of their behaviors.
Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses
Author: David Scheel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324020709
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
“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. Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. How can we study an animal with perfect camouflage and secretive habitats? How does a soft and boneless creature defeat sharks and eels, while thriving as a predator of the most heavily armored animals in the sea? How do octopus bodies work? And how does a solitary animal form friendships, entice mates, and outwit rivals? Over the course of his twenty-five years studying octopuses, Scheel has witnessed a sea change in what we know and are able to discover about octopus physiology and behavior—even an octopus’s inner life. Here he explores amazing new scientific developments, weaving accounts of his own research, and surprising encounters, with stories and legends of Indigenous peoples that illuminate our relationship with these creatures across centuries. In doing so, he reveals a deep affinity between humans and even the most unusual and unique undersea dwellers. Octopuses are complex, emotional, and cognitive beings; even as Scheel unearths explanations for the key mysteries that have driven his work, he turns up many more things of wonder that lurk underneath. This is the story of what we have learned and what we are still learning about the natural history and wondrous lives of these animals with whom we share our blue planet.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324020709
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
“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. Of all the creatures of the deep blue, none is as captivating as the octopus. In Many Things Under a Rock, marine biologist David Scheel investigates four major mysteries about these elusive beings. How can we study an animal with perfect camouflage and secretive habitats? How does a soft and boneless creature defeat sharks and eels, while thriving as a predator of the most heavily armored animals in the sea? How do octopus bodies work? And how does a solitary animal form friendships, entice mates, and outwit rivals? Over the course of his twenty-five years studying octopuses, Scheel has witnessed a sea change in what we know and are able to discover about octopus physiology and behavior—even an octopus’s inner life. Here he explores amazing new scientific developments, weaving accounts of his own research, and surprising encounters, with stories and legends of Indigenous peoples that illuminate our relationship with these creatures across centuries. In doing so, he reveals a deep affinity between humans and even the most unusual and unique undersea dwellers. Octopuses are complex, emotional, and cognitive beings; even as Scheel unearths explanations for the key mysteries that have driven his work, he turns up many more things of wonder that lurk underneath. This is the story of what we have learned and what we are still learning about the natural history and wondrous lives of these animals with whom we share our blue planet.
Many Things Under a Rock Young Readers Edition
Author: David Scheel
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781324019992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781324019992
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Video Source Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: William Benton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
Encyclopædia Britannica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Educational Film Catalog
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Educational Film Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Educational Film & Video Locator of the Consortium of College and University Media Centers and R.R. Bowker
Author: Consortium of College and University Media Centers
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Index to Ecology (multimedia).
Author: National Information Center for Educational Media
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description