The King & Queen of OctoNation

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Skaana with Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, Eco-Ethics & The Environment

Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, orcas, eco-ethics and the environment.

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Mark Leiren-Young, author of Orcas Everywhere and director of The Hundred-Year-Old Whale, meets the humans who are fighting to save our oceans, orcas and environment. Find out how you can make waves.

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The King & Queen of OctoNation

Skaana with Mark Leiren-Young | Oceans, Eco-Ethics & The Environment

27 minutes 59 seconds

1 year ago

The King & Queen of OctoNation

Sy Montgomery (author: Soul of an Octopus) and Warren Carlyle (founder of OctoNation) on friendly octopuses, the Mayor of Octopus City, and their top octopus secrets from their new book Secrets of the Octopus that accompanies the National Geographic TV series. Second of a two-part interview about the wild world of octopuses! "We're in the age of octopus," Sy Montgomery.
Shownotes:

2:28 How the books Secrets of the Octopus and Soul of the Octopus informed the TV series and vice versa.

4:10 How OctoNation raised the profile of octopus photographers and vice versa.

7:02 Favourite octopus secrets - more social than anyone imagines. “They certainly are not all solitary”.

8:30 Octopolis & Octlantis and the Mayor of Octopus City.

9:02 Octopus hunting with other species.

11:15 "I’m taking my vitamins because I want to be on this planet to learn more secrets of the octopus." Sy Montgomery.

11:25 The tiny hairy octopus aka the Chewboctopus!

12:49 Hanging out with a hippo. "I always felt that animals were my people… I’ve always felt more at home with animals than with people." Sy Montgomery.

14:54 Meeting an octopus at age 7 - Warren.

16:00 "We're just a blip on the radar of life compared to the octopus." Warren Carlyle.

17:54 The first time Sy saw an octopus.

18:25 "This is someone. It's not someTHING. It's someONE. And they are as curious about you as you are about them." Sy Montgomery.

21:15 Sy Montgomery on meeting Athena the octopus.
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