[TN-Bird] Speaker announcement

Harvard University Professor Dr. Irene Pepperberg will be presenting a public 
talk at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, "Alex and Me: Can African Grey 
Parrots Understand What They Say?"  on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 PM in the 
Raccoon Mountain Room of the University Center.  The presentation is free.
Dr. Pepperberg is an internationally known animal behaviorist specializing in 
the thinking and language ability of birds who demonstrated that parrots can 
count, acquire large meaningful vocabularies, and even have conversations! Her 
research in raising parrots Alex, Griffin and Wart and studying their cognitive 
and communicative abilities has been featured on PBS's NOVA, the Discovery 
Channel, Animal Planet, and the BBC, and she is the 2006 recipient of the Frank 
A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award from the American Psychological 
Association. For more information, visit alexfoundation.org, visit the PBS NOVA 
site, or contact Dr. H. Lyn Miles at 
lyn-miles@xxxxxxx<mailto:lyn-miles@xxxxxxx>.

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