Alex is dead. The 31-year-old African gray parrot was a resident of
Irene Pepperberg’s lab at Brandeis University, and for decades
Pepperberg taught Alex elements of English. As a result, he had the
language capabilities of a two-year-old and the cognitive capacity of
an older child. The famous bird was filmed by camera crews from all
over the world, he appeared in stories in major newspapers, Pepperberg
wrote a book about him, and he was featured on Scientific American Frontiers ("He loved Alan Alda," said Pepperberg)… More at The Huffington Post.
