gray parrot
Americannoun
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Pepperberg herself discovered something like babbling in a famed African gray parrot named Alex, which she studied for more than 30 years.
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2022
Recently, in his cell, Harris read a story in National Geographic about Alex, an African gray parrot who could count and identify colors like a small child.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
Days before we left, his gray parrot, who every summer for three years had gloried in sitting in the apple tree each morning, flew away.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2018
In a lush aviary near Durban, South Africa, an African gray parrot hops toward me, babbling a language I can’t understand.
From National Geographic ● May 21, 2018
Even the crusty old iguana and a gray parrot that bit me six times.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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