Alex the Parrot

Meet Alex, the world's most famous Congo. Learn about research into the cognitive and communicative abilities of Greys and ways to help support further research.

Alex (If you're coming from the Oryx and Crake page , hi, although I am bound to admit that this is probably not the page you want, and the Alex Foundation is almost certainly more like it.

Alex Alex is a parrot. He is also, as my resume says, "a responsive agent for interactive semi-relational database storage and queries, written in Perl", but the first thing you'd notice

Guardian Unlimited - Bird brain - or parrot prodigy? His death has been reported in the New York Times; an internet condolence book has been set up in his memory. So what made Alex the parrot so speci