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African Gray Parrot
02-07-2013, 07:16 AM, (This post was last modified: 02-07-2013, 07:17 AM by jenb128.)
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RE: African Gray Parrot
(08-13-2012, 04:14 AM)writer811 Wrote: Well, I said it can only express about three things. But it's been proven that these parrots can learn language, not just mimicry but actual understanding, in a laboratory setting. The most educated one on record was able to have simple conversations with the scientist handling it. I read the bird's last conversation before it died and I'd swear it was a small child if I didn't already know it was a bird.

I think you're talking about Alex the African Grey. Here's an article from Scientific American that was written by Irene Pepperberg, the scientist who worked with Alex:

http://randsco.com/_img/blog/0710/talking_with_alex.pdf

Like her, I believe Alex did in fact understand at least some of what he was saying! She says the difference between a parrot simply mimicking and actually understanding what he or she is saying has to do with how the bird was trained.
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African Gray Parrot - by writer811 - 08-07-2012, 04:27 AM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by Pocs - 08-07-2012, 06:19 AM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by writer811 - 08-09-2012, 04:23 AM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by Ram - 08-09-2012, 03:01 PM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by writer811 - 08-13-2012, 04:14 AM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by jenb128 - 02-07-2013, 07:16 AM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by Pocs - 08-09-2012, 03:32 PM
RE: African Gray Parrot - by AnnaU93 - 02-03-2013, 08:40 AM

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