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Monday, April 21, 2008 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM

Leasburg Dam, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, April 21, 2008
Leasburg Dam, Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs NM, April 21, 2008

Night camp

Site 11 - Leasburg Dam State Park, Radium Springs 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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