General Interest

• Apollonio, Marco, and Marco Festa-Bianchet, ed. Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.


• Griffin, Donald R. Animal Minds: Beyond Cognition to Consciousness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.


• Hanlon, Roger T. Cephalopod Behaviour. New York: University of Cambridge, 1996.


• Lane, Frank W. Kingdom of the Octopus: The Life History of the Cephalopoda. New York: Sheridan House, 1974.


• Wells, Martin John. Octopus: Physiology and Behaviour of an Advanced Invertebrate. New York: Chapman and Hall, 1978.


• Young, J.Z. The Anatomy of the Nervous System of Octopus Vulgaris. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.

In Depth

• Anderson, Roland and Jennifer Mather. "Octoplay." Discover. 19.11 (1998): 28. Octopuses were not known to be intelligent enough to engage in playful acts; however, it has been found that they do have the capacity to play.


• Angier, Natalie. "At Love and Play Under the Sea in Octopus's Garden." New York Times. 11 Aug. 1998: F1. The article focuses on octopus intelligence and their designation as the smartest invertebrates.


• Boal, Jean G., Dunham, Andrew W., and Kevin T. Williams. "Experimental Evidence for Spatial Learning in Octopuses (Octopus Bimaculoides)." Journal of Comparative Psychology. 114.3 (2002): 246-52. Octopuses are put in a new place where their learning, behavior, and movements are studied.


• Fiorito, Graziano, and Pietro Scotto. "Observational Learning in Octopus Vulgaris." Science. 256 (1992): 545-7. (1993): 1627-9. Unconditioned octopuses are made to perform tasks that they observed in conditioned octopuses to demonstrate the unconditioned octopuses ability to learn.


• Hamilton, Garry. "Houdini with Eight Arms." Equinox. Jul. 1997: 44. A study on the varying kinds, sizes, and complexities of differing cephalophods.


• Tennesen, Michael. "Outsmarting the Competition." National Wildlife. Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003: 30. A study on octopus intelligence and how they get food.

Online

• Feldman, Gene Carl. In Search of Giant Squid. 31 Jan 2006. http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/squid.html. The site goes in-depth on what the giant squid is, its habits and behaviors, its anatomy, and compares the giant squid with other celaphopods.


• Forsythe, John W. National Resource Center for Cephalopods. 31 Jan 2006. http://www.utmb.edu/nrcc. Provides information on the center's latest laboratory experiments, videos, and photographs of cephalopods.


• Morelli, Tony. The Octopus News Magazine Online. 21 Jan. 2006. 31 Jan. 2006. http://www.tonmo.com. An online octopus news magazine that provides journals, photos, videos, and even forums for users to interact and share information on cephalopods.


• Nature. PBS. The Octopus Show. 31 Jan 2006. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/octopus. Provides episode guides, future "The Octopus Show" airings, games, and various multimedia for the show.


• The Octopus Group. 26 Aug 2004. 31 Jan 2006. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. http://www.octopus.huji.ac.il. Explores the anatomy, movement, and motor performances of octopus arms.


• Wood, James. The Cephalopod Page: Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish, and Nautilus. Jan 2006. 31 Jan 2006. http://www.thecephalopodpage.org. An exhaustive study on cephalopods and also provides various related resources.