9 years ago
TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was "grey".
Alex (1976 – September 6, 2007)[1] was an African grey parrot and the subject of a thirty-year (1977–2007) experiment by animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg, initially at the University of Arizona and later at Harvard University and Brandeis University. When he asked what color he was he became the first and only non-human animal to have ever asked an existential question.[2][3]
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