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2101 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. is a housing cooperative located in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Built in 1928 by developer Harry M. Bralove and his partners, Edward C. Ernst and John J. McInerney, the Spanish Colonial Revival style former apartment building was designed by architects Joseph H. Abel and George T. Santmyer. 2101 Connecticut Avenue is designated as a contributing property to the Kalorama Triangle Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. Former occupants include Alben W. Barkley, William E. Borah, Theodore E. Burton, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Tom C. Clark, Willis Van Devanter, Leslie Groves, John Kluge, and Arthur L. Willard.

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Unlike other parrots, wild African Greys have been documented imitating the calls of several other species. Dr. Irene Pepperberg’s research with captive African Greys, most notably with a bird named Alex, has scientifically demonstrated that they possess the ability to associate simple human words with meanings, and to intelligently apply the abstract concepts of shape, colour, number, zero-sense, etc. According to Pepperberg and other ornithologists, they perform many cognitive tasks at the level of dolphins, chimpanzees, and even human toddlers. One notable African Grey is N’kisi, who in 2004 was said to have a vocabulary of over 950 words and, like Pepperberg’s Alex, was noted for creative use of language. For example, when Jane Goodall visited N’kisi in his New York home, he greeted her with "Got a chimp?" because he’d seen pictures of her with chimpanzees in Africa.

The Eclectus Parrot, Eclectus roratus, is a parrot native to the Solomon Islands, Sumba, New Guinea and nearby islands, northeastern Australia and the Maluku Islands (Moluccas). It is unusual in the parrot family for its extreme sexual dimorphism of the colours of the plumage; the male having a mostly bright emerald green plumage and the female a mostly bright red and purple/blue plumage. Joseph Forshaw, in his book Parrots of the World, noted that the first European ornithologists to see Eclectus Parrots thought they were of two distinct species.

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