Alex & me

how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence--and formed a deep bond in the process

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232 pages

English language

Published July 30, 2009 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-167398-6
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4 stars (2 reviews)

This story of Alex, a famous African Grey parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought.

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reviewed Alex & me by Irene M. Pepperberg

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4 stars

Interesting book that I hope will make people re-think the relationships between humans and animals. As the author puts it, animals are not mindless "automatons" put on earth for human exploitation.

Alex's personality traits were very entertaining, especially when he would get frustrated with what the researchers were trying to teach him and he would go "off script"!

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Subjects

  • Animal communication
  • Cognition in animals
  • Human-animal relationships
  • African gray parrot
  • Behavior