Tried to teach him the spells. The damn monkey never used them.
When I saw it picking someone up, I'd order to put it down and go eat some regular food. It ended up picking up people just to throw them away and then getting the whitey conscience to tell me "your creature is hungry blah blah" every 10 minutes, even though it had a mountain of food at the temple entrance.
It felt playful nearly every second. I gave him the beach ball, he threw it to the middle of the village.
On a sidenote, I confess I loved to fly through a village where the creature was, listening "ahhh", "help", "save us" and alike.