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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

“They’re very good emotional support for Apollo,” Dalton said. “What Apollo is doing is fascinating,” Pepperberg said in an ...

Inspired by Irene Pepperberg’s work with parrot Alex, Apollo has become social media sensation with 2.8 million TikTok followers and 1.37 million on YouTube. The Masons view Apollo as an ...