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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Animals can profoundly influence humans and provide meaningful, practical, real-world, valuable insights.
Chapter 2: African Grey parrots are impressively intelligent, highly astute learners.
Chapter 3: Alex reacted to emotional situations and displayed indications of intent.
Chapter 4: Alex showed creativity and a sophisticated grasp of numbers.
Chapter 5: There are more similarities linking humans and African Grey parrots than you might suspect.
Chapter 6: Science can be a competitive field, often resistant to new ideas and methodologies.
Chapter 7: Being an outsider is hard, yet it can yield unexpected insights.
Description
Alex & Me (2008) is the heartfelt memoir of Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who reveals the amazing story of how she, along with her parrot Alex, smashed scientific boundaries with their experiments and research on avian learning, speech and cognition. Their work has forever changed the way we think about animals, as well as how we understand human nature.
Who Should Listen
- Animal lovers
- Students of linguistics, neuroscience and speech
- Readers who like a good scientific breakthrough