For thirty years Ms. Pepperberg, the author, and Alex, a Grey African Parrot, worked together to learn and understand the mind of each. Although this destiny was surely not chosen by the parrot, he eventually participated wholeheartedly. The author describes the frustrations and the humorous even...
I think this book is something special. First of all, Irene is someone who doesnt get knocked out easily. As you go reading this book you get more and more enthusiast with Alex´s progress until you become absolutely enthralled by such linguistic and cognitive discoveries like the "nu-hu-tuhh" and...
Irene Pepperberg's memoir of her work training and measuring the linguistic capacity of her African gray parrot, Alex, is emotional and intellectually fascinating. She goes into detail about the concepts Alex learned, how she taught and tested him, and why his accomplishments are meaningful, but ...
On October 25 2002, within two weeks of his possible re-election, Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila, were killed in an airplane crash. Stunned, a public service was put together honoring him. Speakers from many walks of life spoke in his honor. Unsurprisingly (and Paul would likely have...