Alex the parrot’s last experiment shows his mathematical genius

Alex, Whats different? Image courtesy The Alex FoundationEven in death, the world’s most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot (Psittacus eithacus) trained to count objects – have just been published.

They show that Alex can accurately add together as many as eight Arabic numerals and three sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates. The work was just published in the journal Animal Cognition.

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Back from the brink: superb parrots return to north-west

Male superb parrot. Photo: Geoffrey DabbCanberra's brilliant birds are winning new ground in the ACT.

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Bill Oddie: Unplugged

Ring-necked parakeets can make quite a racket, but it's nothing compared with a dentist's drill - or a leaf-blower.Everybody loves garden wildlife – but many people don’t like it in their own back yard.

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20 caged green parrots set free

Free as a bird! Ring-Necked Parakeet.BHOPAL: Twenty-caged green parrots put up for sale at a weekly market were set free by the forest department as part of the bird awareness drive, which began on Saturday.

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Parrot test out feather transplants

ON THE FLY: Dr Adrian Gallagher with Bruce, who has had a feather transplant. Picture: Jamie Hanson MEET Bruce the ringneck parakeet. He's the Shane Warne of the bird world.

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