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Susan McCarthy is co-author with Marjorie Ingall of Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies. Ingall & McCarthy write Sorrywatch.com, a website which analyzes apologies. McCarthy also writes about wildlife and animal behavior. She’s co-author of the international bestseller When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, and author of Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild. Not literally raised by wolves, McCarthy lives in San Francisco.

Category: Octopuses

  • Chomp

    One day I saw a giant sea turtle bite my sister. We were snorkeling in Hawaii and were suddenly in the midst of a number of turtles. They were feeding on seaweed. I looked over at my sister, and saw her beaming at a turtle from a respectful distance. Unnoticed by her, another turtle had…

  • An Inappropriate Octopus

    Mike Wood is a scientist who studies salmon. He has a little remote-control submarine for observing salmon underwater, a self-propelled fish cam about the size of a slightly flattened washing machine. It was poking around the sea floor west of Vancouver Island in 2005 when it was suddenly attacked by a giant octopus. In the…