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Alex
Photo: www.alexfoundation.org
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Alex with researcher Irene Pepperberg
Photo: www.alexfoundation.org
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Research with Alex
http://www.alexfoundation.org/
For most important info, click on "research"
Watch an
on-line video showing Alex's performance
Look for If Only They Could Speak
To skip to the section showing Alex, go to
"Man: COME ON, WHAT IS IT?"
At the same site, you might also want to watch Entertaining Parrots
There is a chapter about Alex in the book, The Cognitive Animal,
which is on reserve at the library:
Pepperberg, I. M. (2002). Cognitive and communicative abilities of grey
parrots. In M. Bekoff, C. Allen & G. Burghardt (Eds.), The Cognitive
Animal. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
The following chapter about Alex is in a book on reserve at the library:
Pepperberg, I. M. (1990). Conceptual abilities of some nonprimate species,
with an emphasis on an African Grey parrot. In S. T. Parker & K. R.
Gibson (Eds.), "Language" and intelligence in monkeys and
apes: Comparative developmental perspectives. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
A brief article about Alex is available from the professor:
Anderson, C. J. (2001). Smart Alex: Cognitive development in African grey
parrots. APS Observer, 14 (6), 16 & 22.
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