Report, if you have a problem with this page“ Had a person attempted to taste me so soon after we met, I would have been alarmed; but since Athena was an octopus, I was thrilled. Although we couldn’t have been more different — I, a terrestrial vertebrate constrained by joints and bound to air; she, a marine mollusk with not a single bone, who breathed water — she was clearly as curious about me as I was about her. ”
Sy Montgomery
From : The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness