I managed to find the missing footage taken from the GoPro camera earlier this week. I think it’s interesting to see how the chimps see the world from within their enclosure.
As Jackie mentioned, most of the new posts that you can see in this video will be used to support a wood and fire hose bridge made by the Boy Scouts. While the scouts were working on this over the weekend, we put in about 20 other posts that will one day become climbing structures, tree houses, and crow’s nest lookouts. The money for some of these projects was donated during the fund-a-need portion of last year’s auction. Our goal is to connect all of the structures on Young’s Hill with bridges, beams, and fire hose so that the chimps can move around the two-acre enclosure without having to set foot on the ground.
This sanctuary is definitely a work in progress. But I mean that in a good way, in that we will always add new things and change others to keep life interesting for the chimps.
that is so very cooly cool. it is like being there with them. they are BIG. how much are those cameras? thanks to all who planned, paid for and installed the new ‘climbers’ …
Ours was about $200 plus the cost of a memory card. They have new ones now that are $100 more but they have a higher resolution, different fields of view, and some fancy features like remote control via smart phone and live streaming to the web (though we wouldn’t be able to use this very often because of our data usage restrictions).
do you have a place in mind where it would go????
I have a few places in mind. I’d love to mount one near the lower platform to capture some footage of Negra outside. She is very shy with the handheld camera when she is on the hill, but I don’t think she would mind or even notice the GoPro.
OMG – that is great footage! You Guys are UBER-AWESOME to continue to work the Hill so that the Chimps have so many options. Thank You to the Boy Scouts, too. I can’t get over the footage!
It’s so beautiful! Looks like that’s the place to be. Good job! 🙂
I feel like clapping my hands every time I see a chimp climbing, or sitting among the green leaves. They are so going to LOVE this when it’s done!
What a marvelous time they were having and it sounds like a great plan you are putting together. Many thanks for the video and work that goes into this.
OMG, how amazing for the chimps!!! LOVE it!! Thanks so much to everyone who strives to enrich the chimps’ lives. 🙂
I can’t believe how much has happened there in the last four years. I also can’t believe it has been four years already !!! Thanks for all that you guys do for the chimps.
I love how I was looking off in the distance and all of a sudden a HAND appeared! Made me laugh. This is the very best way to see how they actually look up close. Thx so much for all you do there.
I think I could watch this video all day long!
just think how far they have come! What a beautiful site!
Thank you C-7 staff and volunteers for all that you do…
Marissa