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    <title>Alex &amp; me</title>
    <subTitle>how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence--and formed a deep bond in the process</subTitle>
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    <title>Alex and me</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Pepperberg, Irene M. (Irene Maxine)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Collins</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2008</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2008</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vii, 232 p., [8] p. of plates, : ill. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>This story of Alex, a famous African Grey parrot, documents his thirty-year relationship with his trainer and the ways in which his life has changed scientific understanding about language and thought.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Irene M. Pepperberg.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>African gray parrot</topic>
    <topic>Behavior</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cognition in animals</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Animal communication</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Human-animal relationships</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QL696.P7 P457 2008</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">636.6/8650929</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780061672477</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0061672475</identifier>
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