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Thursday, March 29, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Mutual Attraction, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 24, 2012
Mutual Attraction, City of Rocks State Park, Faywood NM, March 24, 2012

Night camp

Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte 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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