How Smart Was Alex the Grey Parrot?

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Picked at random from a pet store, a humble grey parrot named Alex went on to fundamentally alter the way humans think about animal cognition. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore how animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg and her parrot pal Alex spent three decades proving it's actually pretty impressive to be 'bird brained.'

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1:29.2	Radiculous History is a production of I Heart Radio.
1:56.4	Cocon be good. I love you. Welcome to Radiculous History. Thanks again for tuning in.
2:02.5	Let's give it up for our super producer, Max Freitrain Williams.
2:09.5	Cocon, D they call me Ben. Join us always with one and only Mr. Nol Brown.
2:16.6	No, I gotta tell you, we talked about it off air.
2:21.4	We talked about it off air. My man, thank you so much personally, personally.
2:27.2	Thank you so much for doing this episode. Well, you're welcome.
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