Re: Parrot worked to death?

"M.J." <M.J.@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>     Bull crap.  Tell that to a squirrel that is trying to get to some
>> bird food that some human is trying to make squirrel proof.
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> Tell that to a human POW who is being interrogated hours
> upon hours, daily, for many weeks, and finally breaks down
> to tell anything and everything, who and tells that if the enemy
> broke his arms, or legs, or shot him he wouldn't have told,
> but messing with his brain, through sustained mental stress
> combined with sleep deprivation finally took its toll, and
> caused utter breakdown.
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> We are talking human brain here, not parrot.
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> Alexe was in a way "interrogated" many hours a day for many
> years.  It is ridiculous to even think that this lifestyle had no effect
> upon him.
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> Of course the hypothesis that he was mentally worked to death
> is just that a hypothesis, but since no cause of death has been
> identified it is as good as anything else, perhaps even most plausible.


After all, Alex was part of an ongoing mental experiment to
test the limits of avian intelligence.  The experiment ended
abruptly with an unexplained, premature death of the bird.

Please do not forget, this is exactly what happened from
a scientific perspective. The African Grey subject among
many other things learned to count to six, or seven.

M.J.



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