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Archives for May 2, 2015

Who’s There?

May 2, 2015 by Diana

We had a group of students visit today from The Northwest School, and the chimpanzees were very curious about them.

It was our first group visit at the observation area this year, and the weather was beautiful! Just like our summer visits, a staff member (J.B. today) gave a presentation first in the barn, providing information about the history of the sanctuary and chimpanzees in general, including the use of chimpanzees in the pet, entertainment, and biomedical industries.

Once the group came to the observation area, Jamie, being Jamie, was outside in a flash and spent some time checking out everyone’s footwear.

Negra, on the other hand, held back for a bit. Sometimes it seems that Negra avoids visitors, but today she went out on the hill, ignoring the forage at first, and just calmly checked out the visitors from a distance.

Negra looking at visitors

 

Negra looking at visitors 2

 

Negra sitting arms crossed

 

Satisfied, she then went about her business looking for lunch forage scraps

Negra walking

 

Negra climbing over log

In addition to providing an educational opportunity for supporters of the sanctuary, it’s our goal for our limited visitor program to add something new and interesting for the chimpanzees in a way that they do not feel at all threatened, so it was great to see Negra react with such calm curiosity today.

 

Burrito was curious when the group was loading back on the bus, after he had his fill of the forage. He chose to watch their departure from the greenhouse, where he could see them but they couldn’t see him:

Burrito looking at visitors leaving

Filed Under: Burrito, Nesting, Sanctuary, Young's Hill Tagged With: Animal Welfare, chimpanzee, chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, Cle Elum Seven, csnw, northwest, rescue, Sanctuary, school, visit

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