Monday, January 30, 2012 - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
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The Road to Jerome, Jerome AZ, January 30, 2012
Night camp
Overflow Parking - Cave Creek Regional Park, Cave Creek AZ
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this camp on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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.