A toucan snuggles with her owner. Screenshot: Ripley the Toucan/YouTube
"Our toucan is basically a lap dog," Brock wrote on Reddit.
He said Ripley's "clacking" noises, which some Redditors compared to the sounds made by Jurassic Park dinosaurs or the Predator, were a way of showing her mood.
"In this instance the 'clacking' was just her being silly I think. But they use the clicking sound to show many different moods, depending on the pitch. Usually it means they're contented. But they do it just to try and talk to you as well," he wrote.
