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Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 10,346 ratings — published 2008
Harold Finds a Voice: Child's Play Library-Social and Emotional Learning (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.87 — 318 ratings — published 2013
Mango, Abuela, and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,062 ratings — published 2015
Parrots of the Wild: A Natural History of the World’s Most Captivating Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.50 — 50 ratings — published 2015
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,360 ratings — published 2010
Parrots Over Puerto Rico (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,866 ratings — published 2013
How to Read a Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.20 — 128,088 ratings — published 2024
Of Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.04 — 207 ratings — published 2008
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: A Love Story . . . with Wings (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,685 ratings — published 2004
The Hotel Balzaar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,128 ratings — published 2024
First Day Critter Jitters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.23 — 757 ratings — published 2020
Beak of the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.12 — 90 ratings — published 1981
Birds of a Feather: A True Story of Hope and the Healing Power of Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.24 — 170 ratings — published 2018
Pirate's Perfect Pet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.82 — 393 ratings — published 2016
Where's the Elephant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.16 — 360 ratings — published 2015
The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.02 — 909 ratings — published 2001
Radio Fifth Grade (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.55 — 710 ratings — published 1989
If You Were a Parrot (Physical & Behavioral Adaptation)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.60 — 52 ratings — published 2006
Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.95 — 129 ratings — published 2003
Good Morning to Me! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.45 — 310 ratings — published 2015
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,064 ratings — published 2008
Guide to the Senegal Parrot and Its Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.06 — 48 ratings — published 1998
The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.39 — 285 ratings — published 2008
The Parrotlet Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 3.93 — 15 ratings — published 1999
A Guide to the Quaker Parrot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 64 ratings — published 1997
The African Grey Parrot Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as parrots)
avg rating 4.05 — 39 ratings — published 2000
Amazon Parrots: Aviculture, Trade and Conservation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2005
Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.06 — 68 ratings — published 2004
Unlovable (Owlet Book)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.17 — 726 ratings — published 2001
Elsewhere in the Land of Parrots: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.68 — 146 ratings — published 2003
A Snow Day for Plum! (Plum the Peacock, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.94 — 97 ratings — published
Cockatiel Mutations: A Bounty of Color (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.86 — 7 ratings — published 2012
Chicken Thoughts: Comics About Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.78 — 221 ratings — published 2020
Kawaii Birdies: Learn to Draw 80 Adorable Feathered Friends (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.55 — 66 ratings — published
Daddy, Could I Have an Elephant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.86 — 81 ratings — published 1996
The Wayfinder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,939 ratings — published 2025
Ready to Soar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.29 — 358 ratings — published 2024
Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.44 — 107 ratings — published 2010
Psittaculture: Breeding, Rearing and Management of Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.17 — 12 ratings — published 1991
The Family of Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Too Shy to Say Hi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 64 ratings — published
From Head to Toe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,764 ratings — published 1997
Squirrels in Antarctica (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.55 — 51 ratings — published
Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest (Amerind Studies in Archaeology)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Ultimate Guide to Eclectus Parrots (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 2013
Australian Shell Parakeets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1979
African Grey Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.14 — 7 ratings — published 1979
Training African Grey Parrots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as parrots)
avg rating 3.33 — 18 ratings — published 1989
“A third principal states that the more intense the interaction between a student and its models, the more effective the training. Intensity - the extent to which tutors arouse a response in a student - is determined from direct observations of interactants (e.g., by recording emotional responses) or from indirect measures (e.g., blood pressure or hormone levels).
One implication, supported by data reviewed in Pepperberg and Neapolitan, is that, for both humans and birds, intense interaction requires one or more tutors. Of course, increasing the intensity of the interaction may not always increase learning: overly nurturant models may inhibit learning by preventing a student from experimenting on his or her own and overly aggressive models may arouse fear or counter-aggression strong enough to block processing of any input.”
― The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
One implication, supported by data reviewed in Pepperberg and Neapolitan, is that, for both humans and birds, intense interaction requires one or more tutors. Of course, increasing the intensity of the interaction may not always increase learning: overly nurturant models may inhibit learning by preventing a student from experimenting on his or her own and overly aggressive models may arouse fear or counter-aggression strong enough to block processing of any input.”
― The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots
“I wish that, like you, I could have spent my life transported aloft, as it were, every day, in music. Instead, I've lived like a caffeinated parrot.”
― Paris in the Present Tense
― Paris in the Present Tense
