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Apollo (hatched April 2020) is an African grey parrot and the subject of the popular YouTube channel "Apollo and Frens" run by couple Victoria "Tori" Lacey and Dalton Mason. Apollo has been described as having the intelligence of a "human toddler " and can answer numerous complex questions in English.
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.
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.
The African grey parrots are particularly noted for their advanced cognitive abilities and their ability to talk. There are two commonly kept species of which the Timneh parrot (Psittacus timneh) tends to learn to speak at a younger age than the Congo parrot (Psittacus erithacus). [13]
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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 .
My impression, confirmed by comments above on the talk page and a web search, is that the actual common name is "African grey", or perhaps "African grey parrot" (sometimes with "grey" spelled "gray", but with "African" included). Brittanica has African gray parrot (including "African"). Of course the grey/gray spelling is just a minor WP:ENGVAR ...