Jamie has been making the staff earn their keep this summer and fall. After the other chimpanzees have made their nests and settled down for the night, and just when it’s normally time for the caregivers to go home, Jamie decides she would like some more time outside. She takes walk after walk after walk around Young’s Hill, always requesting the company of a human friend. While her morning and afternoon perimeter walks are often all business, these evening walks are more leisurely. Jamie meanders and explores and stops to take in the view.
Despite the extra long days, we’re all happy to oblige. It’s nice to see Jamie making up for lost time.
Yes, it is wonderful to see her enjoying time outside after all those years of being denied. Warms my heart to see her outside. How wonderful she has you to go with her. Thank you!
How wonderful that she can enjoy her walks with a human friend. It’s a great way to end her day. Thanks for sharing.
New found autonomy. I am a descendant of Africans enslaved in America. I hope this doesn’t offend anyone
but The Chimps new sense of freedoms suggests to me how the newly freed slaves must have felt when they could make their own choices and control their destinies.