About a year ago, volunteer Connie brought over some pea plants for the chimps. They were a huge hit, so this summer she brought some more from her garden! Today they had a big pea shoot and tendril forage.
Jamie and Negra with the tendrils:
Jamie:
Jamie was taking the peas and spitting them out, and eating only the pods plus the shoots and tendrils. You can see the pea “rejects” on the floor in the background of this picture of Negra:
Negra looking in a tendril-filled boot:
Chimps have big mouth pouches and they sometimes munch fibrous foods all together to get out as much flavor as possible. We call this a “wadge.” Here’s Annie with a pea plant wadge:
Thanks again, Connie!
Carissa says
Looks like fun. That’s too funny that Jamie was spitting out the actual peas but eating everything else haha. Great pics.
Marcia Douthwaite says
Thanks, Debbie, for the photos, and Connie for the pea vines. They look so contented with this activity.
Denice says
Thank you Connie for a great forage for the “7”.
Libby says
Looked like it was very interesting snack for the chimps. Love the boot vase and negra’s face munching the tendrils
leslie sodaro says
a wadge … yet another reason to think those chimpsters are pretty darn smart:
… a symphony of flavor in a single wadge
nice tagline