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Alex (May 18, 1976 – September 6, 2007) [1] was a grey parrot and the subject of a thirty-year experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University and Brandeis University. When Alex was about one year old, Pepperberg bought him at a pet shop. [2]
Tori and Dalton train Apollo based on Irene Pepperberg's model/rival technique she developed to train her own African grey parrot, Alex. [3] In the technique, the student (parrot) observes trainers interacting. One of the trainers models the desired student behavior, and is seen by the student as a rival for the other trainer's attention.
To Irene Pepperburg, a research associate who had been working with a parrot named Alex, the conference came as a wakeup call, pushing her to avoid claims about "language" and sticking to "vocal communication." [42] As a result of the Terrace study and the subsequent conference, funding for ape language research abruptly evaporated. [42]
Animal Cognition in Nature: The Convergence of Psychology and Biology in Laboratory and Field by Russell P. Balda, Irene M. Pepperberg, A. C. Kamil. ISBN 0-12-077030-X. Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, by Irene M. Pepperberg ISBN 978-0061673986
Alex, a grey parrot, ... would-be veterinarian John Dolittle is taught animal languages by Polynesia, a 200-year-old West African parrot. In the ...
Evidence that birds can form abstract concepts such as "same vs. different" has been provided by a grey parrot named Alex. Alex was trained by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg to vocally label more than 100 objects of different colors and shapes and which are made from different materials. Alex could also request or refuse these objects ("I ...
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Animals. Alex (parrot) (1976–2007), an African Grey Parrot and the subject of language experiments; Fictional characters. Alex, a character in the 2009 American ...