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Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT

Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT, April 21, 2011
Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT, April 21, 2011

Fruita Campground is in a lush canyon along the Tremont River at the site of a small farming community in Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT.

Fruita Campground, Capitol Reef National Park, Torrey UT

Nights I've camped 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.

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