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World's Smartest Parrot Is No More

Alex was no bird brain: He amused millions, aided science

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 11, 2007 3:27 PM CDT

(Newser) – Brandeis researchers feel as though they’ve lost a colleague: Alex, the African gray parrot they studied for 30 years, died Friday. He helped them reach surprising new conclusions about the avian brain and “was extraordinary in breaking the perceptions of birds as not...   Read full story »

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