Subject: "Bird Brains" - on KCTS
Date: Feb 4 08:20:35 2000
From: mail to:jbroadus at seanet.com - jbroadus at seanet.com


On 3 Feb 00, at 21:07, Lydia wrote:


> And why were the parrots so scruffy looking? I understand Alex is over
> twenty, but so scruffy? Were the other two "student" parrots babies? I
> wouldn't have used scruffy birds for on-camera work if at all possible.
>

Alex might give you one of his funny looks if he heard you suggest that he
should clean up his act for the camera, since he is by all accounts a pretty
special bird. Dr. Pepperberg's articles and her web site have long mentioned
that Alex picks his feathers when he gets bored or, especially, if she is not
around. I recall she said both the other two are young birds. Alex has been
a T.V. star several times-- perhaps he's been telling the other two enough
stories of the big time that they got a little stressed.


Jerry Broadus
P.O. Box 249
Puyallup, WA. 98371