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Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Untitled, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 19, 2011
Untitled, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 19, 2011

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Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

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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