Alex, The Famous African Grey Parrot, Dies Of Natural Causes At the Age Of 31
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1tropics
See article in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/science/10cnd-parrot.html?hp
2keigu
Damn, that is young! I saw a photo of Winston Churchill's parrot who was pushing (or over?) 100! I guess the species variation is huge.
I bought the book on Alex by his researcher/friend a few years ago and found it ridiculously hard-going (and this is coming from one who approved of and patiently translation-checked every line of Gould's "Ontogeny and Phylogeny" in Japanese). It would seem the author was afraid of being atacked as Koko's researcher/friend was and felt she had to be so meticulous as to kill the reader's pleasure.
Have any other books, thorough-going and intelligent, yet not written in what seems like a cross of behaviorese and cognitive sciencese influenced by legalese, come out to make Alex's accomplishments worth rereading?
I bought the book on Alex by his researcher/friend a few years ago and found it ridiculously hard-going (and this is coming from one who approved of and patiently translation-checked every line of Gould's "Ontogeny and Phylogeny" in Japanese). It would seem the author was afraid of being atacked as Koko's researcher/friend was and felt she had to be so meticulous as to kill the reader's pleasure.
Have any other books, thorough-going and intelligent, yet not written in what seems like a cross of behaviorese and cognitive sciencese influenced by legalese, come out to make Alex's accomplishments worth rereading?
3bridgitshearth
Irene Pepperberg I heard recently in a PBS interview. There's a link to an excerpt to her new book (Alex and Me) on the PBS site. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96897162#96912261 Hers is an intriguing piece of extended research done mostly at a time when proving how scientific and non-anthropomorphic you were sometimes may have taken precedence over fully appreciating the relationship she had with the bird. In the interview (and presumably in the book), she discusses how Alex was helping to train other parrots to be part of the research (?!)
4keigu
Damn, I cannot believe, I just replied to a Bridgit letter elsewhere!
I, too, heard the interview. Marvelous. It was so good to know there was a far more readable follow-up. But, thank you Bidgit, chances were that I would have missed it! Yes, i knew what she was up against (felt the same thing in an early D. Griffin bk on animal intelligence). W/ chimp research, too, the teaching others played a role . . .
Can you recall Koko (Penny Patterson?)? In that case, the first book was very readable but the research was attacked... so I suppose Irene did the opposite.
I, too, heard the interview. Marvelous. It was so good to know there was a far more readable follow-up. But, thank you Bidgit, chances were that I would have missed it! Yes, i knew what she was up against (felt the same thing in an early D. Griffin bk on animal intelligence). W/ chimp research, too, the teaching others played a role . . .
Can you recall Koko (Penny Patterson?)? In that case, the first book was very readable but the research was attacked... so I suppose Irene did the opposite.
