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Fun fact: The smartest recorded animal in the world wasn't a monkey or a dolphin, but a parrot. "Alex" was once shown an apple that was cut open to show the yellowness inside, and called it a "banerry", a combination of bannana and cherry. He also once asked what color he was when shown himself in a mirror, making him the only animal to ask an existential question. He also could express sarcasm. RIP Alex the Parrot.
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Ah, yes, Alex. He really was an amazing bird. I watched a short documentary about him on YouTube, narrated by Neil Degrasse Tyson nonetheless. He could apply knowledge of colour, material, shape and size. He could tell you the colour of an object that was bigger or smaller than the other. If given the wrong food, he might throw it at his owner and insist "wanna banana". And yet he died at only half the normal lifespan of an African grey. Such a shame.
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