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Missy climbing

Missy Chimpanzee’s 39th Birthday

August 23, 2014 by Diana

Today was Missy-centered. The theme was tomatoes, slinky toys, tomatoes, socks, tomatoes, cattails, tomatoes, socks, and kongs with peanuts in them – all favs of Missy.

At our HOOT! gala in May, one of the more interesting items we auctioned off during the live auction was a photography session at the sanctuary with professional photographers Dean Rutz and Karen Ducey. There were two lucky winning bidders, and one of the winners cashed in their session this morning – we can’t wait to share a few of their photos with you!

In the meantime, here are some that the staff took today of the birthday girl, a flashback to one of my favorite videos of Missy, and a few photos of the other chimpanzees enjoying Missy’s birthday.

Missy spent the day, as usual, in action and elusive to the camera.

In the photo below, Missy is climbing one of the tallest structures on the hill during the breakfast forage, which included a lot of – you guessed it – tomatoes!

Missy climbing

 

Here she is at the top with a mouthful:

Missy behind post

 

Later, we handed out cattails. Missy decided to take hers inside:

MIssy biting cattail

 

Missy escaping the watchful eye of the camera, climbing to the bridge in the playroom to enjoy her cattail:

Missy climbing stairs

 

Missy in a nest playing with a slinky on the catwalk of the playroom:

Missy with a slinky

 

MIssy removing a kong from a sock:

Missy sit window kong sock

Missy sit window with kong

 

We put the kongs in socks for the nighttime enrichment in homage to Missy’s own invention, and one of my favorite videos of Missy, taken in 2010 (see below):

 

The other chimpanzees also had a great time with all of the birthday festivities today.

Jamie explored some new enrichment in the greenhouse:

Jamie with recorder

 

Jamie cleaning some plastic glasses with a sock:

Jamie with glasses

 

Negra foraged on the hill for breakfast:

Negra forage on the hill

Negra with a strawberry

Negra with chow

 

And Annie, proudly, got the tomato piñata during the playroom forage:

Annie with pinata

 

I posted a little video on Facebook of Missy playing what looks a lot like a thumb war with Negra while they lay next to each other on the catwalk. All in all, it was a pretty great 39th birthday for one of the most athletic, full-of-life chimpanzee people that I’ve ever met. We love you, Missy!

Missy's birthday portrait

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  1. Laura says

    August 23, 2014 at 6:23 pm

    Another great post. Thank you!

  2. Cheryl says

    August 23, 2014 at 7:00 pm

    Happy, happy birthday, Missy Chimpanzee. You add such a lot to the group.

  3. tiki kim says

    August 23, 2014 at 8:31 pm

    Beautiful day for a Beautiful girl! Happy Birthday Missy! Glad you and your Family had a fun celebration!

  4. Cody Marie Phoenix says

    August 23, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    Hope you had a wonderful day Missy! Happy Birthday and may you and the rest of the Cle Elum 7 have many many more!

  5. Jackie says

    August 23, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    I hope the beautiful Missy had a wonderful day. I wish all the chimps and their human friends many happy days in the future!

  6. nicki says

    August 24, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    Happy B-day Miss Missy! xoxoxoxoxooxoxooxoxo

  7. Kathleen says

    August 24, 2014 at 8:21 pm

    Happy 39th Birthday Missy!!! I LOVE you so! Looks like a wonderful party full of everything you deserve — friends, tomatoes, Kongs and cattails, tomatoes, slinky fun and more tomatoes. Lucky Missy. And I love the photos posted on FB, but the video of Missy and Negra was the icing on the cake. What a sweet friend Negra has in Missy.

    Silly Missy, I have a little birthday package coming your way so keep your eyes peeled. Much love to you all year long.

  8. Lynn M. says

    August 27, 2014 at 10:32 am

    Happy birthday my dear Missy. YOU AND I HAVE THE SAME BIRTHDAY!!! I’m a lot older though. 🙂

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