Wow, it must be a ball conspiracy... My little female did the same thing to me the other evening. I looked into her enclosure and she was half out of her hide. Her head was in a very weird position and her mouth was open. I opened the door thinking she had broken her neck somehow or was showing some strange neurological distress. She straightened herself out, came all the way out of the hide and looked me right in the face with a, "Oh hi, what's up?" expression. I had nearly fainted when I first saw her. Maybe they're doing experiments to see if humans really have emotions since there's been rumors in the grapevine....