Old Sad NY Times Article

For some reason today I remembered an old article about a talking parrot named Alex. He was able to form simple sentences to express his feelings. He died at age 31.

Here's an excerpt:

Even up through last week, Alex was working with Dr. Pepperberg on compound words and hard-to-pronounce words. As she put him into his cage for the night last Thursday, she recalled, Alex looked at her and said: “You be good, see you tomorrow. I love you.”

He was found dead in his cage the next morning, Dr. Pepperberg said.

I don't know why but I found this really sad.

Here's the article in full:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/science/11parrot.html?scp=1&sq=talking%20parrot&st=cse