As of about a month ago, Cocoa was moved to another foster home. She will be missed! Good luck in finding a loving, forever home, Cocoa! Pico misses you!

cocoa is a bird that does her own thing. she is not much of a cuddle-bug but she loves attention. any attention she can get, she'll take. she is also interactive in the fact that she is a big talker. she can even place inflections in her words. she is the bird that makes me truely believe that birds understand a LOT more humanspeak than we could ever imagine. she'll just say something or laugh at correct moments. this is indeed an amazing bird.

You think owning a parrot (or two) is for you? Have you ever thought about whether you would be able to take the chatty "contact calls" that happen every morning and every evening? Play the following movie with your sound up all the way. This is in a house with 8 parrots, just after breakfast. (We cover the ground with towels to catch the poop.) Enjoy!

PS: I look forward to these conversations...:-)

cocoa showing her fun side while playing "fetch the papertowel roll" with my husband...(meaning my husband should fetch the roll...which he does. lol)

cocoa is one of those birds that i will never really know how truely intelligent she is. all parrots are intelligent, without a doubt. but cocoa - her intelligence with humans and speech/vocalizations is almost uncanny. she really does say/vocalize things that fit to a particular situation...when she wants to of course.

this weekend, i was talking to my husband about something, not really funny but it was an ironic topic and she starts laughing - no one laughed to spur on her own laughter which was freaky, in a way. then i just started asking her (cocoa) questions after that...3 questions. of all the things she could say, she answered e-a-c-h one in a way that could definitely be understood as answering the question. i wish i could recount those questions and her answers, but it has been a whirlwind of a weekend. my husband and i just stared at her in amazement.

i truely think she can understand much more about human speech than i ever can imagine. and i don't really know what makes her decide when to show her talents and when to just ignore us.

she is starting to enjoy taking showers, ever since she started taking showers with our own amazon, who she adores. cocoa used to just sit there and take the shower and hope it is done soon. now, she does the amazon silly shower dance with our amazon that does this. now they truely enjoy taking showers together. cute!

did i mention cocoa is a diva bird? oh, well, she is. but she has learned that our own amazon, pico, is king. she now allows him first pick on treats on the playstand, and allows him to stand up for her when i get too close.

i have been hiding some pumpkin seeds in her cage in various areas and it seems that she has been catching on to this. whenever i go to clean her cage at night, i find that the seeds i previous hid the night before are gone. i so continue to hide a couple in different areas. i think its great! i should put in more baskets (untreated, of course) and foraging toys in her cage to encourage her to move around more.