Alex & Me : How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

from zibilee

Book CoverIn this touching and eye-opening memoir, Irene Pepperberg reflects on the three decades she spent both teaching and bonding with the amazing African Grey Parrot, Alex. Pepperberg, a life-long bird lover, describes Alex's life in great detail, from the nervous first days of Alex's homeco...

from OccassionalRead

Alex and Me tells the surprisingly moving story of a 30 year professional relationship, scientific experiment, and dare I say "friendship" between Alex the parrot and his owner, the author Irene Pepperberg. Pepperberg, fell in love with birds as a lonely, shy, sad and silent little girl. She earn...

from EowynA

Recommended. This is the story of Alex, the Grey Parrot, who demonstrated a clear understanding of concepts previously successfully tested only in apes and dolphins. The book itself is fairly short, and presented in double-spaced text, so it is a very fast read. The book talks of the author's jou...

from suetu

All my life, I have been fascinated with the idea of cross-species communication. As a young girl, I devoured books about the ape language experiments and John C. Lilly's work with dolphins. It is mildly surprising, therefore, that I missed out on the news about Alex the talking parrot. I don't r...

from 2wonderY

Frankly, Irene by herself is not appealing. So her childhood and adolescence in the first third of the book; and her afterward mourning and preaching detract from the book. Alex is the star, and scenes without him are just irrelevant filler material. Alex is quite a personality. And while Pepperb...