Amazon become aggressive.

My amazon suddenly turned agressive and starts to bite me. This had never happened before and will appreciate if advise can be given.

i am facing the same problem as u r facing now...at my work place we have a yellow naped amazon...he use to have a mate and his mate had lay some eggs for him,1 day when we report for work,we found the eggs n the female gone with a python inside...ever since after that incident...the male amazon has become paranoid n very agressive...biting whoever tries to carry him...i guess he behaves in this way its bcos he witness the horrible incident...nothing have improve so far....we did try to gain his trust again but haizz...same thing....he juz dun seems to trust anybody anymore...

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Hi there guys/gals.

I may not be an expert, but both the cases are withdrawal symptoms.

The tend to be bonded to a particular thing/person and are pressured into abnormal behavior in these circumstances after withdrawal.

I have heard from overseas owners, [my buddies] that if the sitiuation is not addressed immediately after the incident[ what the parrots were taken to ] the sitiuation is irreversible.

In these circumstance a period of cold turkey from touch is advised.

They do have "teenage" periods when one thing is take from them they rebel.

One month is a good measure to be advised from touching, talking and contact with these affected birds.

After that constant touch and affection will bring them back to normal behavioral patterns.

Always note that they do live at/or around the normal human age expentancy thus they do have periods of withdrawal and love.

In a shorter message, stop touching them and fussing over them let them get over it.

I own two african grey's who currently live in "Gelang Patah" [ Malaysia's Port = PSA] my work Place and both are 4 year old and are very much teenagers.

I hope this helps.

God Bless.

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Hi,

My suddenly turn aggressive and begin to bite very hard, It started aweek ago when I offer my hand to take it back into the cage. From that day onward it will try to bite whenever I offer my hand to take it out of the cage. I still let it out by itself because if i don't let it out of the cage for some time it will hang at the door with a pity look. But I have to trick it or use a T stick to put it back into the cage. Thing turn worse two days ago. I let is out to clean the cage, as usual when I open the door it will make it way to the play stand (which is beside the cage) and play there. But this time it suddenly move to bite my toe, I have no choice but to catch it with a towel and glove to put it back into the cage. Since then I did not let it out of the cage because my wife was so scared.

There is no chage in the enviroment, food, routine and out of cage time. (Age: 1 1/2 years old, gender : unknown) May be molting because a few feathers drop each day and a number of new feather popping out.

Does parrot turn aggressive during molting?.

Will appreciate some suggestion.

Agression during molting? Not that I am aware of. But its good you are looking at various angles to determind the cause. And I believe "cause and effect" is particularly true in animal behaviour.

I have a fews questions;
- How often do you clean the cage?
- Do you let the bird out to play daily?
- Have there been a change in your time spent with the bird?
- Any change in the surrounding environment? New furniture? New location for the cage? New people in the house?

These things can cause a change in behaviour.

For example if we (my family) were to neglect our African Grey (Wei Wei in particular) for a few days because we are busy he'd behave a little aggressive. However he soon recover with a regular dose of love and attention. On most Sundays he is left very much on his own home alone and when we come home in the night he'll show his tantrum flicking away even his favourite treats when offered. Wang Wang my other younger CAG is quite different, he behaves like a baby and not as moody.

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Are you very sure of your Amazon's age? From what you describe, he could seems to be entering puberty i.e. going into breeding condition and hence the territorial agression. Some Amazons are like that for just a few weeks in a year.

Just leave him alone for a week or two and watch him carefully when approaching his cage to take him out. I think he should settle down. By the way what type of Amazon is it? The 3 "hot-heads" types are Yellow-napes, Double Yellows and Blue-fronts.


Rupert