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Some birds talk, but do they understand you? With Irene Pepperberg, PhD

Some birds talk, but do they understand you? With Irene Pepperberg, PhD

Update: 2024-11-06
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“Birdbrain” may be an insult, but birds are far smarter than they’re often given credit for. Irene Pepperberg, PhD, talks about her five decades of research with gray parrots, how she teaches parrots to communicate with English words, how birds’ mathematical and other abilities compare with young children, how the field of animal cognition has evolved over the decades and what it can teach us about intelligence in general.

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Some birds talk, but do they understand you? With Irene Pepperberg, PhD

Some birds talk, but do they understand you? With Irene Pepperberg, PhD

American Psychological Association