Field-Of-Study: Organismic Biology & Ecology

Irene Pepperberg is known for her research on the cognitive and communicative abilities of Grey parrots. For over thirty years, she has trained these birds to communicate with humans via the sounds of English speech, and then has used this communication code to examine their intelligence. Her studies show that although these birds’ linguistic abilities seem

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