Alex the African Grey Parrot
When animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg entered a Northwest Side pet shop in 1977 and bought a haughty one-year-old african grey parrots sale grey parrot named Alex and began a 30-year research project that altered the way we think about the avian brain. Alex's research challenged the notion that birds could only imitate human language without understanding the meaning.
What is Alex?
At first, Alex (short caring for an grey parrot Avian Learning Experiment) was a normal african grey for sale $200 grey african parrot parrot purchased from an animal retailer. However, over the course of his life, he blazed trails in animal psychology that were far beyond anything previously thought possible, and he proved that animals can be as intelligent as primates or dolphins. Alex was one of the most famous talking bird around the globe until his death in 2007. He appeared on television programs and reports on science.
Alex was able to identify colors, shapes and materials as well as the quantity of objects.
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