Was Alex the parrot smarter than Griffin the parrot?

Wart {Arthur} is smarter than Griffin or Alex even when it comes to mechanical puzzles, although I hear they're not focusing on those with him anymore and probably haven't for a while as that dates back to the MIT years. The new parrot to the project, which I think is a girl named Athena, was the last update I heard about. read more

Over the course of 30 years, Alex the parrot and Irene Pepperberg showed that parrots are even smarter than most people think. read more

In 1977, animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg went into a pet shop to purchase a parrot. The one-year-old African grey, randomly chosen by the store clerk, was named Alex—or more specifically ALEx—the acronym for Avian Learning Experiment. read more