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Monday, November 15, 2010 - Twin Bridges State Park, Fairland OK

Multiflora Rose, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, July 15, 2010
Multiflora Rose, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, July 15, 2010

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Site 1/12 - Twin Bridges State Park, Fairland OK

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.

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