Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird - Hardcover

Spinner, Stephanie

 
9780375868467: Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375868461 ISBN 13: 9780375868467
Verlag: Random House Inc, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature; they studied great apes and dolphins. African greys, with their walnut-sized "birdbrains," were pretty much ignored--until Alex. 

His intelligence surprised everyone, including Irene. He learned to count, add, and subtract; to recognize shapes, sizes, and colors; and to speak, and understand, hundreds of words. These were things no other animal could do. Alex wasn't supposed to have the brainpower to do them, either. But he did them anyway.

Accompanied by Meilo So's stunning illustrations, Alex and Irene's story is one of groundbreaking discoveries about animal intelligence, hard work, and the loving bonds of a unique friendship.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

STEPHANIE SPINNER is the author of many books for young readers, including Damosel, Aliens for Breakfast, and Paddywack, and Peter and the Wolf. After a distinguished career in children's book publishing, she is now a full-time writer.

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375868461
ISBN 13 
9780375868467
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Zeichner
So Meilo
Anzahl der Seiten
48
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