Friday, January 1, 2010 - Henderson NV
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Flying to Phoenix, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM, December 27, 2009
Night camp
My cousin's place, Henderson NV
Alex Can Spell
Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.