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The Grey Parrot and Other Stories

Author : W.W. Jacobs
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847497895
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Grey Parrot and Other Stories written by W.W. Jacobs and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it's not only his wife who is left blushing. This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as 'The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village. Showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career, this edition hopes to shine a light on a hugely talented writer who inspired many of the literary giants we now consider masters of the genre.

Grey Parrot and Other Stories

Author : W.W Jacobs
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714549525
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Grey Parrot and Other Stories written by W.W Jacobs and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.W. Jacobs delighted in finding unlikely humour in everyday situations and observations, and these tales succeed in raising a laugh from the most mundane of scenarios. In 'The Grey Parrot', a sailor buys a parrot for his wife, whom he suspects isn't faithful in his absence, hoping that the bird will inadvertently repeat anything untoward it hears. Unfortunately for him, the parrot exceeds his expectations, and it's not only his wife who is left blushing.This volume contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs's 150-strong repertory, and includes well-known standalone pieces such as 'The Monkey's Paw', as well as accounts of raucous dockside dalliances and tightly woven tales of poacher Bob Petty's crimes against the unlikely cast of an Essex village. Showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career, this edition hopes to shine a light on a hugely talented writer who inspired many of the literary giants we now consider masters of the genre.

Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird

Author : Stephanie Spinner
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307975673
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird written by Stephanie Spinner and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1977, graduate student Irene Pepperberg walked into a pet store and bought a year-old African grey parrot. Because she was going to study him, she decided to call him Alex--short for Avian Learning EXperiment. At that time, most scientists thought that the bigger the brain, the smarter the creature; they studied great apes and dolphins. African greys, with their walnut-sized "birdbrains," were pretty much ignored--until Alex. His intelligence surprised everyone, including Irene. He learned to count, add, and subtract; to recognize shapes, sizes, and colors; and to speak, and understand, hundreds of words. These were things no other animal could do. Alex wasn't supposed to have the brainpower to do them, either. But he did them anyway. Accompanied by Meilo So's stunning illustrations, Alex and Irene's story is one of groundbreaking discoveries about animal intelligence, hard work, and the loving bonds of a unique friendship.

Good Bird

Author : Barbara Heidenreich
Publisher : Port Perry, Ont. : S. Mattacchione & Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Bird written by Barbara Heidenreich and published by Port Perry, Ont. : S. Mattacchione & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy to read step-by-step guide that uses positive reinforcement for teaching parrots acceptable behavior. Professional advice from animal behaviorist that will help you deal with screaming, biting, feather-picking, bonding and other difficult behaviors.

Pickles the Parrot

Author : Georgi Abbott
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781482678123
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Pickles the Parrot written by Georgi Abbott and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life with an African grey parrot by his owner including her perspectives on animal intellect and unique insights into nature.

Alex & Me

Author : Irene Pepperberg
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921372729
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Alex & Me written by Irene Pepperberg and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A moving tribute that beautifully evokes the struggles, the initial triumphs, the setbacks, the unexpected and often stunning achievemnets . . . [while] uncovering cognitive abilities in Alex that no one believed were possible.'Publishers WeeklyOn September 6, 2007, an African Grey parrot named Alex died prematurely at age thirty-one. His last words to his owner, Irene Pepperberg, were 'You be good. I love you'.What would normally be a quiet, very private event was, in Alex's case, headline news. Over the thirty years they had worked together, Alex and Irene had become famous - two pioneers who opened an unprecedented window into the hidden yet vast world of animal minds. Alex's brain was the size of a shelled walnut, and when Irene and Alex first met, birds were not believed to possess any potential for language, consciousness, or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence. Yet, over the years, Alex proved many things. He could add. He could sound out words. He understood concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none. He was capable of thought and intention. Together, Alex and Irene uncovered a startling reality: We live in a world populated by thinking, conscious creatures.The fame that resulted was extraordinary. Yet there was a side to their relationship that never made the papers. They were emotionally connected to one another. They shared a deep bond far beyond science. Alex missed Irene when she was away. He was jealous when she paid attention to other parrots, or even people. He liked to show her who was boss. He loved to dance. He sometimes became bored by the repetition of his tests, and played jokes on her. Sometimes they sniped at each other. Yet nearly every day, they each said, 'I love you'.Alex and Irene stayed together through thick and thin - despite sneers from experts, extraordinary financial sacrifices, and a nomadic existence from one university to another. The story of their thirty-year adventure is equally a landmark of scientific achievement and of an unforgettable human-animal bond.

The Grey Parrot

Author : Wolfgang De Gralh
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780866220941
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Grey Parrot written by Wolfgang De Gralh and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1989-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known as an authority and writer on parrots, author Wolfgang de Grahl recounts his own experiences from many years of keeping and caring for Grey Parrots. In addition, he has assembled reports and observations from parrot lovers spanning more than a century. The result is a multifaceted portrayal of the character and behavior of Grey Parrots, both as a species and as individuals.

Training African Grey Parrots

Author : Risa Teitler
Publisher : TFH Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Training African Grey Parrots written by Risa Teitler and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The African Grey Parrot Handbook

Author : Mattie Sue Athan
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764141409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis The African Grey Parrot Handbook by : Mattie Sue Athan

Download or read book The African Grey Parrot Handbook written by Mattie Sue Athan and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to keeping an African grey parrot as a pet that covers selection, nutrition, health care, training, grooming, behavioral issues, breeding, flyaways, and other related topics.

Conversations with Cosmo

Author : Betty Jean Craige
Publisher : Sherman Asher Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781890932374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Cosmo written by Betty Jean Craige and published by Sherman Asher Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Cosmo the female African Grey Parrot who talks, responds, and tells jokes. By age six she had learned more than two hundred different phrases and become an adorable feathery person who awakens us to the potential intelligence of all other non-human residents of the earth.

Parrot Tales

Author : Michael Steven Smith
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 9781682193136
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Parrot Tales written by Michael Steven Smith and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Parker is an African Grey Parrot. He entered the life of the Smith family three decades ago when they first encountered him in a downtown Manhattan bird shop and found him so irresistible, they had to bring him home. Charlie is many things in the Smith family, articulating them all in an astonishingly diverse and colorful vocabulary. He can be demanding, squawking imperiously "Clean my cage" or "Want some water." He can be very direct, warning an aggressive business associate who had been yelling at Debby "I'm going to kick your ass, you sonofabitch" He can be mischievous, making meowing noises to a neighbor's confused dog in the elevator. He is a survivor, who ended up recovering on an IV after the collapse of the World Trade Center filled the Smiths neighboring apartment with toxic dust. He is often the entertainer, with a songbook that extends across the opening bars of "Home on the Range" and "The Yellow Rose of Texas." Most of the time he is affectionate, as when he hangs upside down against the side of the cage and asks for his tummy to be tickled. In hearing Charlie's tales in this charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent, sociable and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg insists in her introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but should rather be enjoyed as companions.

Taco

Author : Gustavo Rodriguez
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Taco written by Gustavo Rodriguez and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the adventures of Taco the African gray parrot in this bilingual Spanish/English children's book. Learn facts about these beautiful and intelligent exotic birds. Also take a peek into Taco's life all the way from illegal poaching in Africa and his travels. Will Taco find his forever home? En éste libro infantil bilingüe español/inglés podrán siguir las aventuras del perico gris africano llamado Taco. Además de aprender sobre éstas hermosas e inteligentes aves exóticas, descubrirán la vida de Taco, desde su captura ilegal hasta su vida actual. ¿Encontrará Taco un hogar permanente?

Parrot and Olivier in America

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307358364
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Parrot and Olivier in America written by Peter Carey and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville. With dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer, Peter Carey explores the birth of democracy, the limits of friendship and whether people really can remake themselves in a New World. The two men at the heart of the novel couldn't be any more different: Olivier is the son of French aristocrats who (barely) survived the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerate English printer. But when young Parrot is separated from his father (after a stupendous conflagration at a house of forgery) he runs into the powerful embrace of a one-armed marquis who will be his conduit - like it or not - into a life as closely (mis)allied with Olivier's as if they were connected by blood. And when Olivier sets sail for America - ostensibly to make a study of the American penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from the latest guillotineurs - Parrot, unable to loosen the Marquis's grip, is there too: as spy, scribe, comptroller, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative unfurls, shifting between the perspectives of Olivier and Parrot, between their picaresque adventures apart and together, in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands - a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold.

A Guide To... Grey Parrots

Author : Rosemary Low
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975081754
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book A Guide To... Grey Parrots written by Rosemary Low and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb colourful title authored by Rosemary Low, includes 168 pages of comprehensive information on this species in the wild and in captivity as an aviary and companion bird. Features 230 colour photographs.Contents?History, In the Wild, Worldwide Trade, Subspecies, Physical Characteristics, Colour Mutations, Abnormal Colouration.In Captivity?Accommodation for Breeding Pairs, Breeding, Artificial Incubation, Handrearing, Holiday Care, A Healthy Diet and Diseases & Disorders.As Companion Birds?Selection and Purchase, Preparing a Home for your New Pet, Enrichment and Mental Stimulation, General Care, Pet Characteristics and traits, Talking and Mimicry, Psychology and Common Behavioural Problems.

World's Worst Parrot

Author : Alice Kuipers
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 145982377X
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book World's Worst Parrot written by Alice Kuipers and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava works hard at maintaining a certain image online and at school. As far as anyone else knows, life is great. But when she inherits an African gray parrot from her great-uncle Bertie (whom she barely remembers), Ava’s carefully crafted world starts to crumble. The parrot, Mervin, is loud and messy and obnoxious. Ava’s brother thinks it’s hilarious to post videos of Ava trying to deal with the crazy bird. He even creates a profile for the two of them. Everyone wants to see more of Ava and Mervin. Suddenly, Ava is internet famous—in the worst possible way. Her friends think the parrot is gross and start acting weird toward her. But then a new girl at school helps Ava see that this parrot might not be the worst gift in the world and that just being yourself is the best way to be.

The Alex Studies

Author : Irene Maxine Pepperberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674255461
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Alex Studies written by Irene Maxine Pepperberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Since the early 1900s, most studies on animal-human communication have focused on great apes and a few cetacean species. Birds were rarely used in similar studies on the grounds that they were merely talented mimics--that they were, after all, "birdbrains." Experiments performed primarily on pigeons in Skinner boxes demonstrated capacities inferior to those of mammals; these results were thought to reflect the capacities of all birds, despite evidence suggesting that species such as jays, crows, and parrots might be capable of more impressive cognitive feats. Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether the results of the pigeon studies necessarily meant that other birds--particularly the large-brained, highly social parrots--were incapable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center--a male Grey parrot named Alex--have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field of animal cognition. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.

Bird Talk

Author : Lita Judge
Publisher : Flash Point
ISBN 13 : 1466808683
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Bird Talk written by Lita Judge and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously illustrated tribute to birds of all kinds and the fantastic, funny, fascinating things that they do. Birds have lots of ways of communicating: They sing and talk, dance and drum, cuddle and fight. But what does all of the bird talk mean? Filled with gorgeous illustrations, this fascinating picture book takes a look at the secret life of birds in a child-friendly format that is sure to appeal to readers of all ages - whether they're die-hard bird-watchers or just curious about the creatures in their own backyards.