Question about GTP's

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I always remove mine on their perches, they tend not to respond as well if you try take them off of their perches before taking them out. Also, mine get extremely excited about food, or the possibility of food, so I usually mist them once before I get them out, which makes them tuck their heads - this gives me a second to get their perches out.

See right there's why there is no single right answer to this question because I'm completely opposite in my practices but I get the same results.

I've found that mine get really irritated when I mist them down and I get bit more often after than before. With younger ones, I also tend to put my hands in right over top of them and bring them off the perch that way... I don't pull them off, but I encourage them to come off on their own.

All of ours are handleable, but some are less friendly when you're actually reaching into their personal space (for lack of a better word) than others. Even the largest adults that I handle at work are fine once you get them out and I actually do public educational programs at schools, etc. with ours (obviously I don't do this every day as I think that would be excessive, but it's fine every so often).