{"id":6591,"date":"2012-03-23T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=6591"},"modified":"2013-02-05T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T15:12:52","slug":"animal-behaviorist-irene-pepperberg-to-present-parrot-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/animal-behaviorist-irene-pepperberg-to-present-parrot-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal behaviorist Irene Pepperberg to present parrot research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Irene Pepperberg, an internationally known animal behaviorist who holds faculty positions at Harvard University and Brandeis University, is coming to The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to present \u201cAlex and Me:\u00a0 Can African Grey Parrots Understand What They Say?\u201d on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Raccoon Mountain Room, UTC University Center.\u00a0 This event is free and open to the public.<!--more--><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"6593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/animal-behaviorist-irene-pepperberg-to-present-parrot-research\/alex-with-dr-pepperberg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"916,1168\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Alex with Dr. Pepperberg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Dr. Irene Pepperberg and her parrot, Alex&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg-803x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6593\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg-803x1024.jpg 803w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Alex-with-Dr.-Pepperberg.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Pepperberg specializes in the thinking and language ability of birds which have demonstrated they can count, acquire large meaningful vocabularies, and even have conversations!\u00a0 Her research in raising parrots Alex, Griffin and Wart and studying their cognitive and communicative abilities has been featured on PBS\u2019s <em>NOVA<\/em>, the <em>Discovery Channel<\/em>, <em>Animal Planet,<\/em> and the BBC.\u00a0 She is the 2006 recipient of the Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Aborn, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, says parrots are among the most intelligent birds, only crows and jays are ahead of them.\u00a0 He says Pepperberg\u2019s success in unlocking some of the abilities of parrots is helpful in this area of research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParrots can be trained to speak our language.\u00a0 They can respond in ways we can understand, we don\u2019t have to interpret,\u201d Aborn said.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphins and great apes are also considered to be very intelligent animals.\u00a0 Extensive research with great ape language and cognition has been conducted by Dr. H. Lyn Miles, primatologist and UC Professor of Anthropology at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.\u00a0 She is Director of Project Chantek, a study of the sign language ability, cognitive, and cultural development of an orangutan, Chantek, who spent his early life on the campus of UTC.<\/p>\n<p>Chantek now resides at Zoo Atlanta.\u00a0\u00a0 Miles responded to questions about her work and the work of Pepperberg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you talk about Chantek\u2019s communication skills and how they differ from the language skills from the African Grey Parrots?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Each of the great apes, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans, who have learned human language have slight differences in their reported abilities, and Alex and Dr. Pepperberg\u2019s new parrots Griffin and Wart share many of these skills. The parrots also can name objects, describe the properties of objects such as shape and color and what they are made of. The parrots learn especially well when they have a \u201crival bird\u201d (actually a student assistant) who gets the right answer, and then they try harder. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chantek for example, is extremely interested in tools and can even make an early prehistoric stone tool called an \u201cOldowan chopper,\u201d and very modern and attractive jewelry and found art assemblage. Signing chimpanzees like to dress up in old clothes and interact with each other \u201cin costume.\u201d All the apes have invented words of their own such as Chantek\u2019s \u201cDAVE-MISSING-FINGER\u201d for a campus worker who had an injury, and \u201cRED-PASTE\u201d for ketchup, a combination of \u201cRED TOMATO\u201d and \u201cTOOTHPASTE\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alex and Griffin\u2019s very amazing skills include counting. They can also express some requests such as \u201cWANT GO BACK\u201d to return to their cage. They are perhaps less conversational than some of the apes, but the parrots show many similarities with ape language\u2014which is remarkable when you consider that their brain is the size of a walnut.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is it important for humans to be able to communicate with great apes and parrots?\u00a0 What do humans learn in the process?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For centuries humans have depended upon work animals and cared for pets as companions and family members. But, it is interesting that in the same century that we went into space and visited the moon we also reached out to nonhuman species on earth, primarily great apes and dolphins, to try to communicate with them. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But more importantly, our communication studies with nonhumans have made us realize how incredibly intelligent other species are, and that they share with humans the capacity for culture, tool-making, family life, emotions like grief, medicinal plants, language\u2014and even our pattern of social conflict and reconciliation. Humans are a part of nature and the environment, and we have a stewardship or trust to care for the earth and her intelligent beings better in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Of course, there have been practical benefits from animal language studies\u2014some of our techniques and approaches have been tried first with animals and then with human children. But, mostly, I think communication with animals such as Alex or Chantek is an extension of our human nature\u2014we are that species that seeks to understand all creation\u2014and establishing communication and understanding with nonhumans is a part of that quest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit alexfoundation.org or contact: Dr. H. Lyn Miles at <a href=\"mailto:lyn-miles@utc.edu\">lyn-miles@utc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Irene Pepperberg, an internationally known animal behaviorist who holds faculty positions at Harvard University and Brandeis University, is coming to The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to present \u201cAlex and Me:\u00a0 Can African Grey Parrots Understand What They Say?\u201d on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Raccoon Mountain Room, UTC University Center.\u00a0&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/animal-behaviorist-irene-pepperberg-to-present-parrot-research\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,12659],"tags":[8250],"class_list":{"0":"post-6591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","7":"category-events-entertainment","8":"tag-department-of-sociology","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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