Autobiography of a pet parrot in english

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Autobiography of a pet parrot in english: I am a small parrot.

Polly: the autobiography of a parrot Bookreader Item Preview. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. But once my life changed abruptly — strangers appeared in the forest, caught me, put me in a cage and took me somewhere.

My childhood was over. There were only a cage and unfamiliar parrots. I lived in a pet shop day by day and almost lost my hope for happy days. Days stretched boring and the same. One day was lucky for me as one little boy came into the shop and bought me. His name was Emil. He was a little boy but became a big friend of mine. This is likely the basis of extraterrestrial intelligent life.

It will not be human. Astrophysicist Carl Sagan speculated on what kind of brain intelligent creatures who could think would have.

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No cerebral cortex. But packed with neurons. Humans and parrots split from each other evolutionarily some million years ago. Charlie weighs about a pound and his brain is the size of a shelled walnut.

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He is an African grey parrot whose ancestors came from the Congo. Charlie was laid in Miami and hatched in New York. The most famous African grey was Alex, an acronym for avian life experiment. Alex worked in a laboratory at Harvard with pioneer scientist Dr. Irene Pepperberg. Her groundbreaking studies proved that African grey parrots have the intelligence of a seven-year-old and the emotional development of a two-year-old.

She demonstrated that Alex had the capacity for abstract thought, knew the concepts of bigger and smaller, knew the concept of none, could add and subtract up to seven, knew colors and shapes, and had feelings and emotions. When Dr. Pepperberg started her studies 45 years ago she was ridiculed by nearly the entire all-male scientific establishment.

She could not get grants or a position in the university. They divorced.

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She is now world renowned. Parrots live on six continents. They are being obliterated due to poaching, habitat loss and climate change.