Sy Montgomery

Author, Freelance

Sy Montgomery is an author and naturalist. She has published 28 books for adults and children, including The Soul of an Octopus (2015) and most recently How to be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (2018). She lives in New Hampshire.

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Written by Sy Montgomery

A wild canine eating the skeletal remains of an animal in a muddy water body with a forested background.

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Animals and humans

For the hate of dogs

We treat pet dogs with such sentimentality while their wild, endangered relatives are feared and persecuted. Why?

Sy Montgomery

A great white shark with open mouth, surrounded by metal bars in underwater cage. Shoal of fish visible in the background.

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Cognition and intelligence

Danger girl

What I learned about fear, sex, desire and dread from the peculiar pleasures of diving with great white sharks

Sy Montgomery