"Nathan Schulman" <njs5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:2FKNi.1$NA7.0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Irene Pepperburg randomly purchased Alex from a pet shop in Chicago in
> 1977,
> I think. She was told that Alex was a year old. Was Alex hand raised or
> wild
> caught? We don't know. If he was wild caught he could have been much
older
> that one year. Once the eye turns from grey to yellow at about a year it
> is
> almost impossible to distinguish a one-year-old from a ten-year-old.
It could be that ALEX was simply older, but there is no way to tell.
Although Dr.Pepperberg claims that ALEXes was Harrison's Bird Diet,
and organic fruits, and vegetables of all sorts, I suspect he might have
been
a secret pizza lover.
You know these graduate students at the lab :))))
Necropsy findings of pathological atherosclerosis certainly do not exclude
this possibility, right.
M.J.
> I seriously doubt that Alex was worked from 8 to 10 hours every day.
