Monday, November 26, 2007
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Today I found the Norris Dam State Park just outside Knoxville and decided to give Wal-Mart a break and stop here a few days.
Night Camp: Norris Dam State Park north of Knoxville TN
Alex Can Spell
Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.