The work of Professor Irene Pepperberg of the University of Arizona, Tucson, has now shown the general perception of parrots as mindless mimics to be incorrect. The captive African grey parrot ...

Irene Pepperberg studies Grey parrots. The main focus of her work is to determine the cognitive and communicative abilities of these birds, and compare their abilities with those of great apes, marine ...

David R. Pepperberg received the B.S. degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1966 and 1973, respectively. Following ...

Some animals communicate with others and use a few tools, which may be signs of culture. But humans have hundreds of millions ...

Irene M. Pepperberg, played by Stephanie Clayman. Transitioning swiftly among different modes and moods, Chapados gives the eye plenty to do, not just the ear, as she maximizes the theatrical ...

And then there was Alex, an African gray parrot whom comparative psychologist Irene Pepperberg taught to reproduce English sounds (Pepperberg emphasizes that Alex did not actually learn the ...

Soon after Dr. Irene Pepperberg, a psychologist at Brandeis University and Harvard, began working with Alex, he could say more than 100 English words. What’s even more impressive is that Alex ...

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A bird going viral on TikTok has showcased his intelligence by achieving the Guinness World Record (GWR) for the most items identified by a parrot in three minutes. Four-year-old Apollo, an ...