[TN-Bird] Speaker announcement
- From: "Aborn, David" <David-Aborn@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-birds Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:08:18 +0000
Harvard University Professor Dr. Irene Pepperberg will be presenting a public
talk at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, "Alex and Me: Can African Grey
Parrots Understand What They Say?" on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 PM in the
Raccoon Mountain Room of the University Center. The presentation is free.
Dr. Pepperberg is an internationally known animal behaviorist specializing in
the thinking and language ability of birds who demonstrated that parrots can
count, acquire large meaningful vocabularies, and even have conversations! Her
research in raising parrots Alex, Griffin and Wart and studying their cognitive
and communicative abilities has been featured on PBS's NOVA, the Discovery
Channel, Animal Planet, and the BBC, and she is the 2006 recipient of the Frank
A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award from the American Psychological
Association. For more information, visit alexfoundation.org, visit the PBS NOVA
site, or contact Dr. H. Lyn Miles at
lyn-miles@xxxxxxx<mailto:lyn-miles@xxxxxxx>.
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