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The chimps’ stuff

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

We leave out a lot of toys, blankets and other stuff for the chimps each day, and they pick what they want out of it. It’s interesting to me that there are such individual variations in what the chimps’ choose to hold on to for the day, or sometimes just a moment. I often think of the years and years before they came to the sanctuary when they had nothing.

Here’s Annie staking claim to a couple of clean blankets:

Annie's blankets

and enjoying her spoils:

annie lying on blankets in greenhouse

Jody with a new piece of enrichment – woven and coiled jute from new Canadian friends:

jody with jute

Burrito usually chooses things he can put in his mouth:

burrito toy in mouth in the greenhouse

Burrito toy in mouth upside

and here’s Negra lying in her nest of blankets – Jody’s not the only chimpanzee who does the yoga “happy baby” pose:

Negra happy baby pose

Foxie and Burrito play

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

Foxie continues to entertain us on a daily basis with her playfulness. Yesterday morning Burrito was her playmate. Foxie is holding a Madame Alexander doll that Cindy brought (like the British Boy) and Burrito has a scrub brush and a plastic wrench. He gets clocked in the face with the scrub brush at one point, but doesn’t seem to mind.

So much to say about the chimpanzees…

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Wow. The first full day with the Cle Elum Seven at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. There’s just so much to share – we already feel behind in updating folks. They are all just doing so well and are so much fun – it’s unbelievable. Here are my personal top ten moments (in no particular order) over the past day and a half:

1. Negra sleeping in a comfy nest on the highest platform in the first front room

2.  Jamie playing chase while carrying a purse, a t-shirt, and a large kong toy

3. Foxie looking out to the big playroom – they’ll be going in tomorrow!

4. Jody’s enthusiastic greetings whenever we walk into the human hallway

5. Missy head bobbing frantically for more sweet peppers

6. Burrito playing with Jamie

7. Annie chasing Missy throughout the front rooms – all day

8. Jamie wiping out the food door lazy susans with the t-shirt she was wearing around her neck

9. Missy’s hair blowing in the breeze from the window of room four

10. Burrito lying down, holding his feet with his hands

Diana