Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Archives for May 2010

Thirty thousand and some exciting news!

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Great news! With a little over a month left to go in our 2nd Anniversary Fundraising Drive, we’ve reached our first goal of $30,000! Yahoo! And here’s some even better news:

Karen and Don Young would like to help us reach our ultimate goal of $45,000, so that the chimps can enjoy three new cage-free windows in their playroom. So, from now until we reach the $45,000 mark, Karen and Don have generously offered to match every $2,500 raised. So let’s keep the momentum going and give the chimps a new view – only $7,500 left to go! Who wants to kick off the final push?

Mother’s Day Party

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Here are a bunch of pictures from today’s celebration. As I type the chimps are enjoying bouquets of fresh fruits and veggies, chocolate cupcakes, pita pockets stuffed with peanut butter, and gorgeous paper flowers sprinkled with raisins!

Jody with a gift bag:

Jody getting one of her Mother’s Day brunch crepes thanks to Denice:

Foxie saying hello to one of her new trolls thanks to Robbi:

Foxie always looks cool while eating:

Annie snacking on three crepes at once:

Super stars Sarah, Julie, and Jeani with the bouquets and cupcakes they worked on all afternoon!

Foxie hiding behind some of the beautiful handmade flowers from Jeani’s school:

Mother’s Day

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Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of Jody’s birthday and all of our chimpanzee mothers, we want to thank these wonderful people who helped us celebrate! We couldn’t provide Jody and her friends with such wonderful care without your help.

Leslie Sodaro – in memory of her mother Jean Coe, Feb 1914 to Jan 2010, who loved all animals.
Jeani Goodrich – in memory of Florence Goodrich.
Julie Harding – in honor of her mother Barbara Boekholt.
Jordan Bower – in memory of Susan (Krischano) Olson.
Karen Lucht – in honor of Joan Lucht.
Madelaine Thompson – in honor of Marilyn Thompson.
In honor of Lucy Harding.
John Blattenbauer – in honor of Julie Blattenbauer.
Paul Cheever – in honor of Linda Cheever.
In memory of Eli Harris.
Shannon York – in honor of Myra Leach.

We’re celebrating all day long today – we started with a brunch forage in the outdoor area, and volunteers Sarah and Julie Harding and Jeani Goodrich are hard at work making sugar free chocolate cupcakes and bouquets of greens and fruit for dinner. Here’s a picture of Jody enjoying the morning forage to hold you over till we get video and more photos together later!

Enrichment Puzzle

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Recently, I saw a video from a study of chimpanzee cognition in which chimps were presented with a peanut inside a clear tube that was mounted to the outside of their enclosure. Within a short amount of time, the chimp began filling the tube with water so that the nut would float to the top. Genius! So, yesterday I decided to see how these guys would handle the problem and zip-tied a couple of nut-filled bottles to the outside of the caging. Clearly, my method of attaching the bottles wasn’t quite as elaborate as the one used in the study, since the chimps could just turn them over, but it did keep them busy and entertained for quite some time!

Best of the Web Awards

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Please take a few minutes to nominate us as Best Nonprofit for the Seattle Weekly’s Best of the Web awards. Thanks!