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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In studying the intelligence of animals, most scientist had come to the conclusion that the bigger the brain, the greater the intelligence, so much work was geared towards apes, dolphins and other large animals. In 1977 a graduate student named Irene Pepperberg did not believe this to be true, so she bought an African Grey Parrot which has a brain the size of a walnut and began to train him teaching him to count, add, and subtract, to recognize shapes,...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes flying means keeping your feet on the ground... Born in a dismal room in a pet store, Alastair the African grey parrot dreams of escape to bluer skies. He'd like nothing more than to fly away to a palm tree with his beloved sister, Aggie. But when Aggie is purchased by twelve-year-old Fritz, and Alastair is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky, the future looks ready to crash-land. In-between anxiously plucking...
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