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crow on young's hill

Competition on the hill and Give Five update

June 15, 2013 by Diana

First, thank you for continuing to send the 5-year anniversary video to friends and colleagues. If you haven’t shared the video yet on Facebook, Twitter, by email, or whatever your preferred online network is, please do this weekend! The Give Five donations are still coming in, and we’re now up to $15,525! Every donation helps us to continue to provide quality care for the Cle Elum Seven chimpanzees and to advocate for other great apes in need.

The wildlife on the property are also learning about the sanctuary. In addition to the deer who are quite familiar with our compost, the local crows have learned all about forages. They start swooping in when they see the humans walking around the hill. At first, the chimpanzees chased them off, but that must have grown tiresome. The chimps no longer seem bothered by their corvid neighbors, even as they fly away with a piece of chow or fruit.

crow on young's hill

The chimps just go about their business of foraging. Negra was quite adventurous this morning during the breakfast forage, even climbing up onto the shaky bridge again!

Negra on shaky bridge

Look at this contented face:

Negra stand on hill

 

negra in the grass

Burrito is a first-class forager:

burrito foraging on the hill

and probably most content when he is eating:

Burrito eating grapefruit on the treat rock

I posted a few more photos on some of the chimps’ Facebook pages earlier. I’m sure you’ve liked the sanctuary FB page, but have you liked all of the chimps on Facebook? On FB just type in their name followed by Chimpanzee and you’ll find their pages, or click on their images at the top of this page and you’ll see the link  to their FB page on the right side. Thanks for being their friends!

 

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  1. Amy M says

    June 15, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    Wow — from a sterile, windowless basement to sharing their space with other wildlife. Priceless.

  2. Amy M says

    June 15, 2013 at 4:16 pm

    Diana — Actually, I think the competition has evolved into coexistence!

  3. Denice says

    June 15, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    My money is on the chimps. It might look like they have lost interest in the crows but as time goes on and the crows grow use to the chimps not chasing them…. well, let’s just say that “when you least expect it”.

  4. Benjamin Pavsner says

    June 15, 2013 at 4:34 pm

    1. I don’t remember ever seeing Negra on the bridge before.

    2. Burrito is a total guy. You can almost hear him think “where’s the food.”

    3. I’ve seen Jamie and the others handle the horses, What about other wild life, like birds?

  5. diana devo says

    June 15, 2013 at 7:33 pm

    Counting Crows
    Chimps in the wild eat small birds. Do you think the 5 will ever try to catch the crows?

  6. Kerri says

    June 15, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    HA! As good as the 7 have it, I can almost see the disgust on Jamies face as she settles in with a “raw tasteless bird” and discarding it after one bite. Then off she goes to forage for beautiful fresh whole fruit and nuts, but not the brazil type 😉

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