Parrot — The Alex Studies · 138
[688] [roadmap-parrot-5] Every Strigops is named and managed on predator-free New Zealand islands. Supplementary feeding and nest cameras make it closer to intensive care than to a hands-off reserve. 138 Irene Pepperberg’s papers treated English tokens as categories, not circus tricks. Alex (1976–2007) identified colours, shapes and same/different above chance. The debate is about the ceiling, not
Are London’s ring-necked parakeets a conservation win? They are an introduced boom, not a restored native. Cavity competition with starlings and bats is the local argument. Why do so many macaws remain threatened? Cavity trees come down with forest. The pet trade added a second cut. Spix’s macaw went extinct in the wild before a 2019–20s reintroduction attempt in Bahia.
They learn contact calls in flocks. Human-word mimicry is the lab and living-room version of a general vocal-learning kit shared with songbirds and hummingbirds. Since 1989 it funded trade research, in-situ projects and the journal PsittaScene — a counterweight to avicultural magazines.
Kea pry, lories brush nectar, and hyacinth macaws crack palm nuts. The bill is a Swiss-army kinetic tool, not a single nutcracker. Parrot is one of 24 types in this animals atlas. The pages treat it as a full system -- history, anatomy, operating principles, culture, icons, future pressure and market shape -- not a ranking of a best species.
The order on the card is year, line, figure. Parrot is not sorted by how much visitors like the photo. 2000: log Parrot under “The Alex Studies” with 400. Do not rank the species. 4002000
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2000
- Figure to keep
- 400
- Species
- Parrot
- Line in the log
- The Alex Studies