Animal Minds - About Alex, the brainy African gray parrot

News Type: Other — Seeded on Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:56 AM EST

Article Source: National Geographic

science, birds, parrots, animal-intelligence, animal-communication, thought-processes, photo-video-gallery

There may never be another bird like Alex. The brainy African gray parrot, who died in September at age 31, had a grasp of numbers, colors, and even a very basic insight into the concept of 'zero' that challenged scientists' most fundamental assumptions about animal intelligence.

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