would you believe me if I told you there was an african grey parrot that understood the concept of zero?

Answer 1

The loss of Alex, the African Grey Parrot last week was a sad event and a great blow to the scientific study of birds and their intelligence.
The ability of Alex to understand the concepts of numbers and zero, bigger and smaller , and action/ reaction was documented by over 20 years of scientific research. But it comes as no surprise to most owners of Parrots.
After all, most of the children in my neighborhood understand less, reason more erratically, speak less clearly are more unpredictable and are less loving than my Quaker Parrot.

Answer 2

Alex did not understand the concept of zero as in the number 10, he could only count to six. However, he did understand the concept of nothing. When he was presented with several objects that had nothing in common and he was asked, "What is the same." He would correctly reply, "Nothing". Many Ancient societies did not use zero. For example there is no Roman numeral for zero.

Answer 3

YES! I personally own two Greys... they have the intelligence of a 6 yr old child. The more you work with them the more you will be amazed at how much they understand and know.

Answer 4

Of course. They're exceptionally intelligent. Heck, I barely understand the concept of zero.

Answer 5

The 3 most intelegent animals in the world are Humans, Chimps, and african grays.

My granama had all 3:) humans(my mom), chimps( when she lived in africa), african gray( now)

Answer 6

Yes, and he died last week at age 31. So sad. :(
Fly free, Alex.

Goes to show how much we underestimate parrots. They are very intelligent.

Answer 7

sure they are very intelligent