When Sy Montgomery wants to learn about an animal, she goes all in. In this case, she is practicing true immersion journalism. At the Boston Aquarium, Sy is introduced to her first octopus. Putting ...

Sy Montgomery is talking about interacting with Sy, the Giant Pacific octopus that is her namesake at the New England Aquarium in Boston, where Montgomery researched octopuses she writes about in her ...

RYE – The Seacoast Science Center and Rye Public Library will present An evening with Sy Montgomery, author of "The Soul of an Octopus," from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Seacoast Science ...

A few years ago, New Hampshire naturalist Sy Montgomery — who has written about birds, dolphins and tigers — sought an encounter with an octopus. “I wanted to touch an alternate reality,” she writes ...

A few years ago, New Hampshire naturalist Sy Montgomery - who has written about birds, dolphins and tigers - sought an encounter with an octopus. "I wanted to touch an alternate reality," she writes ...

The photographs by award-winning underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen are absolutely brilliant, and they help bring the book to life; moreover, book’s syntax is impressive. Montgomery introduces ...

Update, 4/14/16: In case you needed any more proof of the intelligence of octopuses, Sy Montgomery noted just last week on Inquiring Minds that there are a number of stories of octopuses at public ...

Sy Montgomery, author of 20 books, including “The Soul of an Octopus,” visits Sy, a giant Pacific octopus named in her honor at the New England Aquarium. “Equal parts poet and scientist,” Montgomery ...

"This, I thought, is how to confront the cruelty of the word," writes Sy Montgomery near the end of her enchanting "Of Time and Turtles." She's talking about saving turtles, most of them smashed while ...

Sy Montgomery spent three years getting to know octopuses at the New England Aquarium. Little did she know her time with the animals would change the way she lives and sees the world. The author and ...