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When animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg entered a Northwest Side pet shop in 1977 and bought an obnoxious one-year-old congo african grey parrot grey parrot named Alex and began a 30-year experiment that altered the way we think about the avian brain. Her work with him has challenged the belief that birds can only mimic human speech with any understanding of the meaning.
What is Alex?
In the beginning, Alex (short for Avian Learning Experiment) was just an ordinary timneh african grey parrot grey parrot that was purchased from a pet retailer. But over the course of his life, he led trails in animal psychology that were far beyond anything previously thought possible, and he proved that animals are as intelligent as dolphins or primates. Alex was among the most well-known talking birds around the globe until his death in 2007. He appeared on television shows and in scientific reports.
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