Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper 111
ananyo writes "Even in death, the world's most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot trained to count objects – have just been published (abstract). They show that Alex could accurately add together Arabic numerals to a sum of eight, and correctly add three small sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates."
Alex is Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Alex is Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Because some people on Slashdot don't like parroted stories. I see complaints about that frequently.
Bert
Re:Alex is Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sea animals? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Alex is Dead? (Score:2, Funny)
pining for the fiords
Re:Alex is Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
It's an X parrot! "What does X equal, Alex?"
Alex also solved the Goldbach conjecture (Score:4, Funny)
but only up to 8.
Re:Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Pos (Score:4, Funny)
It also looks like your English teacher Hated and was Afraid of English, and Past that Hate to you.
Re:implication for dinosaurs (Score:5, Funny)
With time, the dinosaurs might have evolved to create civilization.
They actually had an advanced civilization but it collapsed. When the time came to actually DO something about the massive rock heading for the planet, they built a trajectory altering rocket that would land on the asteroid, dig itself in, and then fire its engines to steer the asteroid the necessary fraction of a degree away to save the planet.
Unfortunately they used touch screens for everything (instead of keyboards and mice) to cater to the T-Rex crowd with their short arms. When it was time to launch, they futilely pawed at their dPads but they just couldn't get any actual work done.