ok, more parroting

I'd never heard of this African Grey parrot named Alex, but I'm not much of a parrotologist.

bad parrot

From an article in the 12 May 2008 New Yorker by Margaret Talbot, "Birdbrain":

At the Brandeis lab, [Pepperberg] is training and testing her two remaining parrots, Griffin and Arthur. Griffin, who is thirteen, shows more promise than Arthur, who is nine. Both seem shyer and less confident than Alex. Pepperberg's lab manager, Arlene Levin, describes Griffin as "a timid guy, and a plucker." (Anxious parrots pluck out their feathers.) And Griffin grew up in Alex's shadow; he was the one whom Alex interrupted and corrected—"Say better," "Pay attention," "Bad parrot."