Alex the African Grey Parrot
When animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg entered a Northwest Side pet shop in 1977 and purchased a haughty one-year-old African grey parrot named Alex She started a 30-year study that changed how we perceive the avian brain. Her research on Alex disproved the belief that birds could only mimic human language without understanding the meaning.
What is Alex?
At first, charmingafricangreyparrotforsale.Com Alex (short for Avian Learning Experiment) was just an ordinary African grey parrot bought from a pet store. Over the course of his lifetime, he broke new ground in animal psychology and proved that animals are just as intelligent as dolphins or primates. Alex was one the most talked about talking birds in the world until his death in 2007. He appeared on TV shows and in scientific reports.