Alex was an African grey parrot studied by Irene Pepperberg for nearly thirty years, becoming a landmark individual in animal cognition research before his death in 2007.

Research settings in the United States, including Brandeis University

Story

Alex participated in nearly thirty years of cognition and communication research with Irene Pepperberg.

The archive avoids turning him into a human-like speaker and instead records the careful evidence of complex avian cognition.

Alex is archived because his life changed how many people understood bird intelligence and cross-species communication.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Alex (parrot)
• The Alex Foundation
• Wikimedia Commons: Alex