Parrots’ Corks at Pepperberg Lab

This summer, I visited Dr. Irene Pepperberg’s research lab at Brandeis University to interview her, Arlene, and several students for the film “A Day in the Life of Alex”. Pepperberg’s groundbreaking research with African Grey parrots has an interesting set of artifacts: colored wood, colored wool, colored corks, etc. used in isolating attributes of an object. The birds can identify color across a range of materials, materials in many colors, etc. and can use plain english to communicate this knowledge. corks

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One Response to “Parrots’ Corks at Pepperberg Lab”

JWick Says:
December 4, 2009 at 11:43 am | Reply
I love this shot. Because of the bright colors, the helter-skelter arrangement and to some degree the shapes, it reminds me of photos and paintings of the lobster bouys common on in the art galleries of the New England coast.

(Alex’s Tangle, perhaps?)