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Thursday, March 24, 2011 - BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM

Camped at BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM, March 24, 2011
Camped at BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants NM, March 24, 2011

Night camp

Site ? - BLM Campground, El Malpais National Conservation Area, Grants 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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