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The Essential Cockatoo by Laurie Baker & Stuart Borden - This fun, informative, and practical book will help you select, train, and nurture your Cockatoo. In full-color throughout, chapters include Choosing, Bringing Home, Understanding Your Companion, Nurturing, Training, and Health Care. Author Laurie Baker, a companion bird breeder and behaviorist, is a life member of the American Association of Aviculture and owner of Feathered Follies Bird Shop in California. She spares no punches about the hard work and diligence required in some areas of keeping these magnificent species.

The Essential Cockatoo

by Laurie Baker & Stuart Borden

Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots! by Barbara Heidenreich - A professional in animal behavior has created an easy-to-read step-by-step guide that uses positive reinforcement for teaching your parrot acceptable behavior. This book will help you deal with screaming, biting, feather-picking, bonding, and other difficult parrot behaviors. Chapters include Preparing the Companion Parrot Owner, Screaming, Biting, Bonding to One Person, Cage Bound Bird, and Feather Picking.

Good Bird! A Guide to Solving Behavioral Problems in Companion Parrots!

by Barbara Heidenreich

The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook (Revised Edition) by Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein - Covers all aspects of pet bird ownership, including selection, nutrition, behavior, home physicals, emergency medical care, preventative medicine, and much more. Presented in seventeen chapters, this book provides guidance on getting started, achieving optimum health, and understanding what your bird needs from you for a happy, healthy life. Includes an index of health and illness signs, general index, bibliography of additional resources, and superb photos and illustrations to support the detailed text. You will consider this book to be the most essential reference in your avian library, a constant source of reliable advice, assistance, and assurance for your bird's well-being.

The Complete Pet Bird Owner's Handbook (Revised Edition)

by Dr. Gary A. Gallerstein

Home > Shop Online > Books & DVDs > African Greys > The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots (Paperback) by Irene M. Pepperberg

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots (Paperback) by Irene M. Pepperberg - Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether the results of earlier pigeon studies necessarily meant that other birds-particularly parrots like Alex the Grey-were incapable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. This scientific, technical book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots (Paperback)

by Irene M. Pepperberg

Can a parrot understand complex concepts and mean what it says? Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether the results of earlier pigeon studies necessarily meant that other birds-particularly parrots like Alex the Grey-were incapable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. This scientific, technical book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.

Item Number: 102-P

ISBN: 0674008065

Pages: 434 pp.

Published: 1999

Illustrations: Black/white photos, charts, and drawings

Binding: Paperback (Click here for Hardcover)

Size: 6" x 9.25"

Price: $21.95

 

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More Books & DVDs About African Greys

African Grey Parrots by Maggie Wright

The African Grey Parrot Handbook by Mattie Sue Athan & Dianalee Deter

African Greys by Greg Glendell

African Parrots by Rick Jordan & Jean Pattison

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots (Hardcover) by Irene M. Pepperberg

The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots (Paperback) by Irene M. Pepperberg

Amazing Greys by Gamini Ratnavira

Birdkeeping the South African Way (Part 4): Keeping and Breeding African Greys by Eelco Meyjes

Complete Guide to African Grey Parrots by Pamela Hutchinson

For The Love of Greys by Bobbi Brinker

A Guide to Grey Parrots as Pet & Aviary Birds (Hardcover) by Rosemary Low

A Guide to Grey Parrots as Pet & Aviary Birds (Paperback) by Rosemary Low

An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet: The African Grey by Julie Rach

Where the Wild Greys Are: A Day in the Life of Africa's Grey Parrots by Diana May, Valerie Hovetter & James Gilardi

 

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