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The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots [Audiobook] download free by Irene Maxine Pepperberg

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots Audiobook download free by Irene Maxine Pepperberg
  • Listen audiobook: The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
  • Author: Irene Maxine Pepperberg
  • Release date: 2002/3/11
  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9780674008069
  • Rating: 7.53 of 10
  • Votes: 146
  • Review by: Alistair Passmore
  • Review rating: 9.33 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/28
  • Duration: 5H33M44S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-09
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression TAR.Z, RAR, CPIO, ACE, 7Z, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 448
  • Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 27M33S (7.6 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics-that they were, after all, 'birdbrains.' Experiments performed primarily on pigeons in Skinner boxes demonstrated capacities inferior to those of mammals; these results were thought to reflect the capacities of all birds, despite evidence suggesting that species such as jays, crows, and parrots might be capable of more impressive cognitive feats.Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether the results of the pigeon studies necessarily meant that other birds-particularly the large-brained, highly social parrots-were incapable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center-a male Grey parrot named Alex-have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field of animal cognition. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching, Zoology & Animal Sciences, Animal Behaviour, Experimental Psychology, Birds (ornithology), Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Communication Studies, Birds, Including Cage Birds, As Pets
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 44.11 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x235x27.18mm
  • Weight: 572g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States

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