3/01/2007

Coco, My Grandpa's Parrot

In the world, you can find really bizarre creatures. Coco is one of them. It's a parrot, namely a "Gris du Gabon". It's a she in fact, but we always refer to it by the pronoun "il" (don't ask why). My uncle got it from a woman who wanted to get rid of it round 25 years ago. She had got that parrot—who's got a really original name by the way—when Coco was a small bird. Now, that beast must be 45 years old (thus she's nearly as old as my uncle) and can live 20 more years! Coco can't fly (she has never learnt how to) and likes eating meat, including chicken and eggs (and preferably egg yolk), which may seem to be cannibalism. Here, she's eagerly eating a ribbone. (Click on the picture to see the details. I'll show more picture where she looks surprised or angry, etc., just with her eyes (because she can't smile or anything). I just love the way she can grab something just with her claws, while standing on one "foot" (or how do you call it).

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