Alex the Talking Parrot

Another truly amazing story of animal-human relations. When are people going to get off their high-horse about animal intelligence and the human arrogance that claims that if there is such a thing as a soul, that only people have them.

Alex the African gray parrot had a vocabulary of 100 words and clinical tests demonstrated an understanding of human language. He had a beautiful relationship with his person, Irene Pepperberg. When Alex died in 2007, his last words to her were, “You be good.... I love you.”

For more on Alex's accomplishments, go to the Wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)

or visit The Alex Foundation at: www.alexfoundation.org.

Alex