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Even more affecting to me was Alex asking what colour he was: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/27/alex-the-parrot-is-the-only-non-human-to-ask-the-existen
by kwhitefoot 5y ago
Even more affecting to me was Alex asking what colour he was: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/27/alex-the-parrot-is-the-only-non-human-to-ask-the-existential-question-what-color-am-i-2/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/11/27/alex-the-parrot-is...
- xwdv 5y agoHe said no such thing he was asking what color a parrot in the mirror was.
- PhasmaFelis 5y agoWe can't know for certain (at least not from that article), but there is some evidence that at least a few exceptional birds can pass the mirror test, and Alex certainly appears to have been an exceptional bird. It's plausible that he understood it was his own image.