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The African Grey Parrot in this video is amazing at getting what she wants—especially if what she wants is a nice, soothing cup of chamomile tea. ... Follow us on YouTube for more entertaining ...
On his YouTube channel, Apollo has been shown asking several questions and understanding the answers he receives. [8] This makes him the second recorded non-human animal to have ever asked a question, the first being Alex, another African Grey Parrot. Apes who have been trained to use sign language have so far failed to ever ask a single question.
There is controversy about whether parrots are capable of using language, or merely mimic what they hear. Some scientific studies—for example those conducted over a 30-year period by Irene Pepperberg with a grey parrot named Alex and other parrots, covered in stories on network television on numerous occasions [7] —have suggested that these parrots are capable of using words meaningfully ...
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]
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The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot, African grey parrot or Congo African grey parrot, is an African parrot in the family Psittacidae. The Timneh parrot ( Psittacus timneh ) was previously treated as a subspecies of the grey parrot, but has since been elevated to a full species.
Psittacus is a genus of African grey parrots in the subfamily Psittacinae. It contains two species: the grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ) and the Timneh parrot ( Psittacus timneh ). For many years, the grey parrot and Timneh parrot were classified as subspecies; the former as the nominate, the latter as P. e. timneh .
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