It's a wild wild world
I was thrilled to be able to see wildlife photographer Nick Nichols at National Geographic last night, talking about his life experiences and his new exhibit at the Nat Geo offices, “Wild.”
He has indeed had a pretty wild life — apparently, he was the guy they called in when an assignment was a little too crazy for anyone else. “Get Nick,” they’d say. “He’ll do anything.”
Octopuses might not seem like the most charismatic of characters, but the reading I’ve been doing lately makes me want to do a deep dive and make an octopus best friend pronto.
In honor of World Octopus Day, Jer Thorp told a great story about getting to know an octopus on Storify.
A number of similar stories can be found in Sy Mongomery’s book, The Soul of an Octopus. Montgomery becomes friendly with a number of very different octopuses during the course of researching and writing her book, and she tells the story of each of them with a sensitivity and probing inquisitiveness worthy of an octopus’ tentacle. In this passage, she describes meeting Athena, the New England Aquarium’s octopus at the beginning of her research:
The quotation I posted one post back is from the book, Where the Animals Go, with which I’m currently obsessed. In Where the Animals Go, the two authors take a look at the movements of groups of animals, letting the animals themselves map areas and giving us insight into how they see their world.