• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

Hope. Love. Home. Sanctuary for primates.

  • Our Family
    • The Chimpanzees
    • The Cattle
  • Blog
  • About Us
    • Visiting the Sanctuary
    • Philosophy
      • FAQs
      • Mission, Vision & Goals
      • Privacy Policy
    • The Humans
      • Staff
      • Board of Directors
      • Founder
    • Annual Reports
    • The Future of CSNW
    • CSNW In The News
  • You can help
    • Donate
      • Be a Chimpanzee Pal
      • Be a Bovine Buddy
      • Sponsor-a-Day
      • Personalized Stones
      • Transfer Stock
      • Bring Them Home Campaign
    • Leave A Legacy
    • Volunteer
    • See Our Wish List
    • Events
  • Resources
    • About Chimpanzees
    • Enrichment Database
    • Advocacy
      • Apes in Entertainment
        • Trainers
        • Role of the AHA
        • Greeting Cards
      • Chimpanzees as Pets
      • Roadside Zoos
      • Chimpanzees in Biomedical Research
      • Conservation
        • African Apes
        • Orangutans
  • Shop
    • Merchandise Store
    • Bookstore
  • Contact
  • Donate

taking care of the boss

December 22, 2012 by Diana

As we’ve mentioned before, grooming is an important aspect of chimpanzee culture. Between lunch and dinner in the afternoon is probably the most popular time for grooming among the Cle Elum Seven.

Even though she’s the boss, Jamie is not always the center of grooming. Missy grooms Jamie fairly often (see some photos from about a year ago on this blog post).

Missy grooming Jamie

But Burrito is a less frequent grooming partner to Jamie.

Today Burrito and Missy were both grooming Jamie at the same time as they all sat in front of one of the windows on the catwalk of the playroom.

web burrito jamie missy groom pr catwalk IMG_1328

 

Burrito kept looking at me while I was taking photos.

web burrito jamie missy groom closer up fr catwalk IMG_1324

web Burrito jamie groom look over shoulder pr catwalk IMG_1321

 

BurritoChimpanzee BehaviorGroomingJamieMissy

Share

Share
Tweet
Share
Pin

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. LeakeyLover says

    December 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    I love grooming pics. Very nice ones. Thank you.

  2. Brenna says

    December 22, 2012 at 10:47 pm

    Burrito has such expressive eyes. 🙂

  3. marissa says

    December 23, 2012 at 9:49 pm

    this is good progress for buritto!

  4. diane says

    December 24, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    Is this how chimps relax?

    • Diana says

      December 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

      Yes, relaxing is certainly part of it!

Previous Post
Foxie and her dolls
Next Post
It’s begining to look a lot like…

Primary Sidebar

Archives

Calendar of Blog Posts

December 2012
M T W T F S S
« Nov   Jan »
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  

Categories

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Footer

PO Box 952
Cle Elum, WA 98922
info@ChimpsNW.org
509-699-0728
501c3 registered charity
EIN: 68-0552915

Menu

  • The Chimpanzees
  • Blog
  • About Us
  • You can help
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Donate

Proud Member of

Connect With Us

Search

Copyright © 2019 Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. All Rights Reserved. Site by Vegan Web Design