Name: ____________________

What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD?

1. Just looking at the title and the heading, what do you expect are the “surprising insights” about animal
intelligence?

2. What do you know about PTSD? What is it? Who does it affect? How?

3. What can you infer (assume) is the reason why these birds end up at Serenity Park?

4. What are the “flight lessons?”

5. In what ways are abandoned pet parrots traumatized twice?

Words I Don’t Know:

6. What is the reason behind the parrot’s ability to

repeat what human being say?

7. What symptoms of PTSD do parrots demonstrate

that are similar to human symptoms?

8. Explain what the term Anthropocene means. What caused it?

9. How long has animal-assisted therapy existed? List some examples of animal-assisted therapy.

10. What would be your ideal animal for animal-assisted therapy? Why?

11. What are some of the qualities that Alex the Parrot had that proved his intelligence?

12. Why do the veterans who work with parrots respond to therapy better than the veterans who don’t?

13. What similarities do the parrots have to the veterans they connect with?

14. What do you think of Serenity Park?