The Fearless Toucan

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One thing I LOVE about toucans? They’re fearless! This is Rocko’s aviary. I’ve experimented with putting him in the others but this one seems to suit him best. Not to mention I have to thoroughly clean the aviaries before putting him in the others in case there is food or things he can’t have. That’s not to say I haven’t done it, but this is the best one for him and so I added TONS of new toys on a shopping spree to my local PetSmart. It already had lots of our natural toys in it and I decided to add some color, some toys that I wouldn’t give my parrots since they could chew it and ingest it. Toucans can’t chew on things and destroy them so toys last longer for them. Which is pretty nice on my wallet!

However, Rocko is so FEARLESS when it comes to new toys that he will jump down to play with anything and plays with every single toy in his aviary. It’s adorable.

Though things still spook him, say, in the house, when it comes to toys or anything new I put up in his aviary for him, he’s fearless.

Whether it’s fruit on a skewer or pieces of colored wood that LOOK like fruit with bells… he is all over it. Bells used to be my swainson toucan’s favorite toys and Rocko seems to just like everything, especially rope. He also seems very drawn to color. Though I often see him playing with one of our natural coconut toys quite a bit.

When he inspects a toy, he tests how strong it is against him by shaking it and investigating it all over. Especially bells… what makes this thing make noise? 

I even picked up these awesome new perches from PetSmart. Immediately when Patty saw them she was like, “You aren’t giving those to the parrots, are you? They look like they’re kept together with glue.” I told her they were Rocko and I was so excited, and so was she so we raced out and she helped me put it up for him which he immediately used and posed for me on.

Since his favorite thing is playing with rope, I figured he’d love a perch with rope in it and coming out of it! How fun.

Us toucan owners have to get more creative because these are not very popular pets and little is known about them. But entertaining them is a full time job and a fun one at that!