Friday, April 18, 2008

Animal Minds - Smarter Than You Think

"In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creature's mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. 'I thought if he learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world.'"

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