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Science 11 February 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5455, pp. 980 - 981
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5455.980
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COGNITION:
Tales of a Talented Bird
A review by Edward Kako
The Alex Studies Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
Irene Maxine Pepperberg
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 446 pp. $39.95, £24.95. ISBN 0-674-00051-X.
For more than two decades, Pepperberg has worked with an individual African Grey Parrot named Alex. In this book, she describes her admirably rigorous studies of his linguistic abilities and what they might mean for our understanding of an animal mind.
The author is in the Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA. E-mail: ekako1{at}swarthmore.edu
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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)
