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Alex the African Grey Parrot When animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg entered a Northwest Side pet shop in 1977 and bought a haughty one-year-old African grey parrot named Alex, she started a 30-year study that changed how we perceive avian intelligence. Her research with Alex challenged the notion that birds can only imitate human language without understanding meaning. What is Alex? Alex (short form for Avian Learning experiment) was initially an African grey parrot bought at a pet store. Over the course of his lifetime, he