We’re continuing our series of blog posts on chimpanzee identification today with Missy. (If you missed the posts about Annie, Burrito, Foxie, Jamie, or Jody, click on their names.)
Missy is the resident athlete and daredevil, and she usually looks like this:
or like this:
If you catch her in a still moment, you’ll notice that she has a white chin and a distinctive white splotch on the left side of her face above her lip:
She has a short, stocky body. Here you can see that she’s significantly smaller than Jamie:
and Jody:
Missy doesn’t have much of a neck; sometimes it looks like her head sits right on her shoulders:
And of course, she’s often playing with her best friend Annie: