SV: [gecko]Intelligence question.

[obeligz]

PC, Your post inspired me to the point where I was up all night browing the net and reading about macaos, geckoes, behaviour and instincts of these animals. I was just wondering, have you tried to tame large geckoes in the same manner that you tame your parrots? I was just wondering since.. I keep my oldest leachianus in my bathroom. I decorated the bathroom to suit his needs, temp, humidity, branches & all. He his, I guess, the typical leachie, When I go to the bathroom I usually pretend I don’t see him even if I have to walk over him (if he’s on the floor (nighttime) and He’ll just stand still or wander off slowly in some direction. He’ll eat off my hand when I pick him up but still he prefers not to be picked up so I avoid picking him up unless it’s necessary or I want to examine him. I was wondering if I’m going about it thee wrong way..? Has anyone socialised a gecko to the point where the gecko enjoys contact with it’s owner and seeks that contact for other purposes than to obtain food? Regards obeligz   -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P� vegne av PetCrazy Sendt: 31. oktober 2003 03:00 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: [gecko]Intelligence question.   Peter, My macaw and conure both know how to get in and out of their cages just fine. Both are very aware of the fact that's a food and water place, and safe haven to sleep. My conure was known for escaping his cage ever since he began eating more solid foods (to the annoyance of his breeder), and my macaw goes in his cage himself at night, and goes in when I ask him to.  "Go in your cage" is all I need to say (Or "fungow" since Kantonese was his first language), and he'll say "K" and go inside...if he doesn't WANT to go in his cage, he'll try to outsmart me...he'll begin making his way leisurely into his cage, but JUST as he gets to the door he'll grab the bar just above it, swing in, then swing out as I go to close the cage and he'll go ontop of the cage instead then LAUGHS. Yes, this bird laughs at you.... Yesterday a friend of mine came to visit, she came up the stairs and saw him in the living room. Once he saw her he said "Hello"...she didn't answer, she spoke to me instead, asking why he was there. He said again a bit louder "HElLo?" she still didn't answer, a more insistant HELLO followed. He was getting impatient, she was ignoring him...then he said it Slooowly as if she were stupid and didn't get what he was saying. I told her "He wants you to say hello" so she said "Hello Uno" to him... to this he just chuckled. He probably thought she was pretty dumb for not answering him. And when I told him Bye to get him to say it for her...he just looked at me...I wasn't GOING anywhere yet, why should he say goodbye?...it wasn't till I picked up my jacket and started heading down the stairs that he said "BYE BYE!!". No, you can't claim this is 'trigger trained' behavior. Since he has his own bedroom (he shares with two other birds I'll admit), and was only in the livin g room a couple of days since someone needed the guest room. So he couldn't have learned to say goodbye when someone went down the stairwell. I think my little bird brains have some brains don't you think.     Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals