A research scientist forms 30-year bond with an unlikely subject. Irene Pepperberg, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Brandeis University and Research Associate and Lecturer at Harvard, studies cognittion and communication in Grey parrots. Her book, Alex and Me, a New York Times bestseller, describes life with her most famous subject.

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