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Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper

Posted by Soulskill on from the math-is-for-the-birds dept.

ananyo writes "Even in death, the world's most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot trained to count objects – have just been published (abstract). They show that Alex could accurately add together Arabic numerals to a sum of eight, and correctly add three small sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates."

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  1. From the title I thought Alex WROTE the paper! by wisebabo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That would've been even more impressive than his math abilities.