AFRICAN GREY, NIKO, PLAYING PEEK-A-BOO
31 May 2009
Here is our 4th Parrot: NIKO, the AFRICAN GREY.
We adopted him in 2005 and don’t know much about him other than that he was probably stuck in a tiny cage with little or NO interaction or human touch at all and NEVER let out of his cage. When we first got him, he LUNGED at us viciously ready to take a chunk of flesh out of our bodies with his formidable big beak if we got any closer than a foot to his cage. It took him MONTHS to just dare venture out and climb on TOP of his cage.
Since then, he has made GREAT progress and has stopped the lunging. The aggressive biting has subsided considerably as well! A couple of months ago, he started climbing off his cage and began exploring the floor around his cage. The latest and most gratifying development is that he seems to finally be looking for closer human contact: he now walks over to the TV tray by the couch, climbs up on it, and lets me ever so gently (and carefully!) touch his head. Maybe one day he will actually let me scratch it for real! His world is getting bigger at last!!! 
As usual, you can HEAR high-pitched loud-mouth Rainbow Lory Twillie in the background and SEE Umbrella atoo Nana busily re-arranging the paper at the bottom of her cage.
DATE RECORDED: April 28, 2008
RECORDING METHOD: Flip Video Ultra Camcorder
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