Alex The Talking Parrot
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2. ValdeLevis 1 year ago
What happened to Alex's flight and tail feathers? Have the other birds been picking on him for being a brainiac?
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3. Comment rated too low. Show this comment DoubleBubble 1 year ago
Just trickery. He's been trained to reply certain sound to other sounds he hears. He has no concept of colour, shapes or numbers. You could show him anything and ask the same carefully worded questions and get the same, now wrong, answers back. It's a nice party trick but that's all it is.
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Good boy 
but I think this parrot is showing signs of depression followed by broken feather shafts.
Hope he gets better
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6. Comment rated too low. Show this comment Cloe 1 year ago
#3 you are wrong! yes i know thouse pet owners that go with their parrots or dogs to shows and do this kind of triks BUT... this parrot is a lab parrot not a pet .he is sutudiet carrefouly for us humans to understand his abilities . so once again you are wrong 
/////o.. and just as an opinion, this concept of lab animals is wrong an cruel-see the lab rats,monkeys,dolphins,bunnies,pigs and other animals treated with cruel just so they can make new cosmetic products, animal tested drugs are aloso wrong . Come on scientists this is 21st century! spend some money in new tehnologies that will alow you to test drugs safuly !!
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7. librabooks 1 year ago
Alex needs to learn the word "MOLE"... then he can do the Austin Powers' "Moley Moley Moley Moley..."
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#6 most of those "safe technologies" just don't exist...
Now explain to a child why we didn't save his dying mom just because we didn't want to develop meds that NEED to be tested on animals before trials are attempted on humans...
At the end of the day, animal trials SAVE countless human lives and if anyone argues, they just ignore the reality of medical research....
Most researchers are not monsters, they don't make animals suffer on purpose and design their protocols accordingly... of course there's abuse but not more than humans often abuse other humans...
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11. PortugaL26 1 year ago
Well done Alex, but your cousin Einstein ain't so bad either!
http://www.snotr.com/video/1827/Einstein_bird 
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13. Comment rated too low. Show this comment moese 1 year ago
#3 #6 --> 0:59
"What color bigger?" - "Green." - "Good boy."
... both keys were green.
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15. DoubleBubble 1 year ago
I truly don't understand what all my thumbs down are for. My dog is trained to sit when I say "sit". I could show him a chair and work in the comment "sit" to the sentence and you'd all be coo-ing over how smart he is. I think it says something more about you lot than the parrot if you believe he's responding to understanding purely commands, numbers, colours and shapes.
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16. c0mmanderKeen 1 year ago
#3 Its easy to fall into that trap - however parrots are known to have an actual grasp on the concept of numbers, for example, including "zero" which requires logic to understand.
Similar things have been done with crows and ravens. Birds often are underestimated.
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17. Comment rated too low. Show this comment cranky 1 year ago
Ok, this parrot is smart. Now leave him the heck alone. He prefers to fly high over a jungle and not be stuck in a tiny lab for the rest of his life.
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#1 Its because in 2007 he was 30 years old and now he is dead !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
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1. hdwg 1 year ago
I was more impressed that he asked for some water.