Today i got to hand feed a new gecko thats at the zoo, i dont know her species but i have pictures, her markings resemble that of bird dropping as a defence mechanism in the wild. Shes from a pet store that my teacher/boss is good friends with who's agreed to have her breed with one of his gecko's and share the offspring. I dont know the species that she's gonna breed with (only gecko's i know there are the leapord ones, the rest i dont know the species names of) but i cant waaaait till they breed and offspring are made, im sure they'll be to-die-for adorable <3
Another awesome yet freaky thing that happened today.. we have a blue macaw at the zoo now as well, hes being babysat there for his owners. He was originally my teacher/boss' pet but he couldnt care for him as much as he required so he was adopted but the family is going away for a while so he's being taken care of at the zoo. I noticed his water was really low and i couldnt fit the jug's spout well enough through the bars so the water would flow into the dish rather then the bottom of the cage so, as freaked out as i am by parrots, i reluctantly opened the cage and stuck my hand in to grab the dish and Ziggy (the macaws name) climbed onto the cage door that was hanging ajar.
Totally panicking inside i tried to look confident so he didnt think i was scared and try to lunge at me and tear me up (he's quite vicious to a couple other volunteers, he actively attacks the cage in their direction when they walk by but he calmly coo's and gurgles when i walk by.. i think he doesnt like black hair. Both of them have black hair but i have red.) and im like, craap, i had absolutely no idea what to do.
I remembered that when he escaped once a pole was used to nudge him back in so i found one and tried to use it and he ran across the pole onto my arm. My arm. Like holy crap, my arm. He has enormous curled talons and this huge black beak and i know their power from researching hyacinth macaws for a project and unintentionally learning a lot about the larger breeds of macaws in general through my research and he was just sitting there, staring at me. On my arm. He then crawled onto my shoulder. Im totally freaking out but he's as calm as a cucumber, quietly cooing and gurgling.
Of course im the only one in the main room, only one volunteer who he HATES to death and boss/teacher was at the zoo but both were in different parts of the back of the zoo where its freezing cold so i couldnt go outside to find them lest Ziggy freak out and start biting me or batter me with his wings and i definitely knew that if he saw the volunteer he would start attacking and probably lash out at me in the process.. so i kinda just sat there and held onto his big stick inside the cage in hopes he'd walk off my arm and back into the cage and waited..
He kept dipping his head gently and i eventually tried to pet him which was apparently all he wanted from me and was trying to tell me that by dipping his head and it was really really awesome. He was like a really scary yet totally puppy personality bundle of feathers. He just wanted some love. It took about 10-15min from between him crawling from my arm to my shoulder to finally getting him to enter the cage with some incentive via a shelled peanut but i finally did get him in there and got the door closed. It was really bizzare, really scary, and totally awesome. Its really weird how parrots which scare the crap outta me seem to love me the most.
Shakespeare the Sun Conure was the first parrot since getting my finger mangled many years ago ive ever interacted with and i had a similar experience with him. But the scare factor with a blue macaw compared to the ity bity Sun Conure is like a huge void. But they're definitely doing a great job at winning back my affection for exotic birds <3
I need to clean first, because if I don't get everything done first... Judging from Friday night, absolutely nothing WILL get done. Woke up though and realized my room isn't as bad as I thought once all the dishes were gathered, so YAY! 
