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Irene M. Pepperberg, Alex the parrot’s keeper, has authored a book about her experience with the beloved bird called Alex and Me.

People would ask, “What is all the fuss about, why was Alex so special?” and I’d say, “Because a bird with a brain the size of a shelled walnut could do the kinds of things that young children do. And that changed our perception of what we mean by `bird brain.’ It changed the way we think about animal thinking.”

Read the first chapter here.

(image via NYT)