'Wanna Nut!'; What Listening to Animals Tells Us About Ourselves; THE ALEX STUDIES; Cognitive and Co...
'Wanna Nut!'; What Listening to Animals Tells Us About Ourselves; THE ALEX STUDIES; Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots By Irene Maxine Pepperberg; Harvard University Press: 448 pp., $39.95; INSIDE THE ANIMAL MIND; A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence By George Page; Doubleday: 320 pp., $24.95; WILD MINDS; What Animals Really Think By Marc Hauser; Henry Holt: 320 pp., $25; RATTLING THE CAGE; Toward Legal Rights for Animals By Steven M. Wise; Perseus Books: 192 pp: Home Edition
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Media accounts of Irene Pepperberg's 22-year-long study of an African Grey parrot named Alex are invariably packaged in the most painfully obvious type of humor, with headline references to birdbrains, Dr. Dolittle and the inevitable Polly. Of course, this may suggest that the media's own "cognitive and communicative abilities" are sadly limited, b...
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'Wanna Nut!'; What Listening to Animals Tells Us About Ourselves; THE ALEX STUDIES; Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots By Irene Maxine Pepperberg; Harvard University Press: 448 pp., $39.95; INSIDE THE ANIMAL MIND; A Groundbreaking Exploration of Animal Intelligence By George Page; Doubleday: 320 pp., $24.95; WILD MINDS; What Anim...
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