Squid Empire - The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

Danna Staaf

ForeEdge

2017

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-10: 1611689236

“Cephs rule! Squid Empire, like its protagonists, is nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word. What could be more fun than jetting back in time to primordial seas with the monsters who really ruled our planet? In these pages, Danna Staaf makes every dino-lover and every undersea adventurer’s dream come true. It’s a fabulous read with squishy, slimy delight on every page.” (Sy Montgomery, New York Times-bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus)

“This crystal-clear book will open your world to wider horizons and much deeper times. . . . Long before vertebrates evolved anything like higher intelligence, squids and octopuses were on a separate track to versatility, problem-solving, individual recognition, and deceit. Before we can know who we are, we must know who we are here with, and who has come before us.” (Carl Safina, New York Times-bestselling author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel)

“This engaging book may do for early cephalopods what paleontologists did for dinosaurs in the 1960s: spark a public renaissance of appreciation for these magnificent creatures who once ruled the seas.” (Jennifer Ouellette, author of Me, Myself and Why and The Calculus Diaries)