1.0 link 63824 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-kenneally/a-bird-of-many-words-in-m_b_63824.html Alex is dead. The 30-year-old African gray parrot was a resident of Irene Pepperberg's lab at Brandeis University, and for decades Pepperberg taught Alex elements of English. As a result, he had the language capabilities of a two-year-old and the cognitive capacity of an older child. The famous bird was filmed by camera crews from all over the world, he appeared in stories in major newspapers, Pepperberg wrote a book about him, and he was featured on Scientific American Frontiers...

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