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Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

Snow Goose, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011
Snow Goose, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 23, 2011

Night camp

Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM

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.

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