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Learning about Jamie

June 18, 2008 by Diana

Jamie with bucketWe have been learning a lot about all of the chimpanzees over the last few days. Jamie is quite amazing. She figured out the lazy susan feeding doors in about 2 sec. She really enjoys the enrichment that we’ve been giving out – she’s spent many hours cleaning with the brushes and big buckets of soapy water that we have given her. The second day we left the bucket in room two. When the chimpanzees were let back into that room, Jamie immediately went for the bucket – ignoring all of the fruit that we had also left in the room, which is pretty remarkable because she loves fruit and can get angry if someone else gets an apple or orange that she wants. Instead, she protected the bucket and would not let any of the other chimpanzees near it until she had tired of cleaning – which took over an hour. She was very focused and thourough in her cleaning, concentrating on one concrete step for a long time, then washing a mug in her bucket as though it were a sink.Today, Sarah and J.B. report that Jamie tied a bow – she took a piece of string, put it around her neck, and tied it into a bow. These things indicate that Jamie was raised in a very human environment prior to being sold to Buckshire. We hope to find out more. Although it is a testament to their intelligence and ability to learn, it always saddens me a bit when chimpanzees do things which they only could have learned in a human environment. It makes me wonder how Jamie views herself and if she once saw herself as a human, or perhaps still does. We as humans have taken away ‘normal’ chimpanzee culture by raising chimpanzees in captivity, and often we replace that with aspects of our own culture, so the chimpanzee is left with no place to really fit in.On a positive note, we will be working hard to keep Jamie occupied and interested in her surroundings and we will provide her with her favorite things as we learn what they are.Diana

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  1. Shelly Knapp says

    June 18, 2008 at 7:26 am

    oooh, sweet Jamie. I’m wondering where she learned to clean like with a bucket, brush and soap, too, since obviously that’s not something wild chimps do.

    Is there a way of learning what their histories are Diana? Thanks again for all the details, I love reading all of it 🙂

  2. Lori & Walter Knuckey says

    June 18, 2008 at 7:39 am

    Every morning since the Chimps arrived, the first icon on my computer that I click is your blog. Thank you for sharing. How incredible to see this vision and dream come true. We look forward to many more photos & wonderful updates. Thank you for caring so much!

  3. Melody Platt says

    June 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    I love Chimps and am so happy that Lori sent this my way. I am saving to my desktop to check each day. Since I love to clean reading the blog on Jamie cleaning made me smile. I would thnk that her home before being used for research was something that made her happy as she obviously is now. Bless the Safeway for the food and bless the sanctuary for caring so much to make this dream come to life!

  4. Shane Hill says

    June 22, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    I like Jamie because she is like me because I like to spend at least an hour in the bathtub. I hope they live a long and good life.
    Shane (almost 10 years old)

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