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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take an animal to the vet, if that animal could look at you in terror and say "I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry. Want to go home"?
I feel like I keep up on the developments of non-human cognition more than the average joe, but the intellectual and emotional skill of this bird-brain blew me away.
I don't love Pepperberg's writing style, but I love the work she does and the reasons she does it. I disliked the first chapter, full of sappy condolence emails about Alex's death, but the sprightly life of that bird in the remainder of the book made it worth the read for me. At the very least, everyone who cares about challenging the smug, speciesist, human self-satisfaction that facilitates our cruelty toward other kinds of living things should look up some articles about Alex's life immediately. This bird -- and the others Pepperberg is working with -- is a little window into the complexity and richness of non-human cognition.
I feel like I keep up on the developments of non-human cognition more than the average joe, but the intellectual and emotional skill of this bird-brain blew me away.
I don't love Pepperberg's writing style, but I love the work she does and the reasons she does it. I disliked the first chapter, full of sappy condolence emails about Alex's death, but the sprightly life of that bird in the remainder of the book made it worth the read for me. At the very least, everyone who cares about challenging the smug, speciesist, human self-satisfaction that facilitates our cruelty toward other kinds of living things should look up some articles about Alex's life immediately. This bird -- and the others Pepperberg is working with -- is a little window into the complexity and richness of non-human cognition.