Alex, RIP

Caption: Alex, a 31-year-old African gray parrot, knew more than 100 words and could count and recognize colors and shapes.

NYT coverage of the death of Alex:

PARROT POWER; Alex Wanted a Cracker, but Did He Want One?
(THIS LINK HAS A VIDEO OF ALEX)
...He is survived by his trainer, Irene Pepperberg, a prominent comparative psychologist...Skeptics have long dismissed Dr. Pepperberg s successes with Alex as a subtle form...have seen)? What color smaller? Dr. Pepperberg asked the parrot as she held up two...
September 16, 2007 - By GEORGE JOHNSON - Week in Review

EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK; Alex the Parrot
...of our own reflection we see. What you make of Dr. Irene Pepperberg s work with Alex depends on whether you think Alex s cognitive...standard knowing how to use the word properly Alex loved Dr. Pepperberg. Beyond that, only our intuitions, our sense of who that...
September 12, 2007 - By VERLYN KLINKENBORG - Opinion



Brainy Parrot Dies, Emotive to the End
...of natural causes, said Dr. Irene Pepperberg, a comparative psychologist at Brandeis...1960s and 1970s. In 1977, when Dr. Pepperberg, then a doctoral student in chemistry...using novel methods of teaching, Dr. Pepperberg prompted Alex to learn scores of words...
September 11, 2007 - By BENEDICT CAREY - Technology