The Alex Studies : : Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots / / Irene Maxine Pepperberg.
Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics--that they were, aft...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2002] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
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