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This Parrot is Dead - RIP Alex

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Not a Norwegian Blue and the plumage is gray, but Alex the gifted parrot has seen it's last day.

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Gifted research parrot Alex found dead
Tue Sep 11, 11:43 AM ET


A gifted parrot that could count to six, identify colors and even express frustration with repetitive scientific trials has died after 30 years of helping researchers better understand the avian brain.
The death of Alex, an African Grey parrot, left scientists at Brandeis University feeling as if they'd lost a colleague.
"It's devastating to lose an individual you've worked with pretty much every day for 30 years," scientist Irene Pepperberg told The Boston Globe. "Someone was working with him 8 to 12 hours every day of his life."
Alex's advanced language and recognition skills revolutionized the understanding of the avian brain. After Pepperberg bought Alex from an animal shop in 1973, the parrot learned enough English to identify 50 different objects, seven colors, and five shapes. He could count up to six, including zero, was able to express desires, including his frustration with the repetitive research.
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Pepperberg said the last time she saw Alex on Thursday, they went through their goodnight routine, in which she told him it was time to go in the cage and said: "You be good, I love you. I'll see you tomorrow."
Alex responded, "You'll be in tomorrow."
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It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. Its metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot!


RIP Alex
 
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scooter1369;927347; said:
That's pretty cool. Not that he's dead, but all the shit he could do. I though parrots typically had a longer life expectancy than that.
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The cause of Alex's death was unknown. The African Grey parrot's average life span is 50 years,
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Parrot owners tell me it's like having a 3 to 5 year old in your house for up to 50 years. Not something I was ever interested in embarking on but I like meeting parrots. This one sounds exceptional.
 
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