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Archives for September 14, 2016

Tiny chimps

September 14, 2016 by Katelyn

As soon as breakfast was over this morning Jamie was ready (and demanding) to go on her first perimeter walk of the day. If you got a chance to check out Elizabeth’s great blog post yesterday, you can see this is also the time we begin cleaning the chimp house. But Jamie makes sure we keep our priorities straight. So as Anna and Jamie headed off for a walk, most of the other chimps decided to join them (with the exception of the Queen who was enjoying her after breakfast nap in the greenhouse)! And so I headed out to our observation platform to take photos.

It never gets old seeing the chimps traverse their outdoor habitat, but it was a special treat to see them all on the structures together! They looked so tiny out there…

Anna, (top to bottom) Jamie, Jody, Burrito and Missy:

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Annie, Missy, Jamie (at top) and Jody walking away with her treasure of found cattails:

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Jamie, Burrito, Missy (Anna looks like she’s catching a piggy back on Missy, but rest assured she’s on the outside of the fence 😉 ), and Annie:

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Meanwhile, Foxie and her twin Doras had meandered over to climb up Jamie’s Tower:

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So tiny…Foxie on Jamie’s Tower (the top right hand of the photo), taking in the woods above the sanctuary (and our new property!):

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Jody continued back to the greenhouse with her mouthful of cattails, making her way through the tall grass like a wild woman:

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The others caught up with Foxie and reconvened on Jamie’s and Carlene’s Towers together. Annie standing below, Jamie on the ladder, and Foxie up top:

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Jamie, Missy and Foxie:

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Jamie made her way across the shaky bridge to Carlene’s Tower:

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Burrito isn’t as sure of himself on shaky structures so he’s a little more cautious about traversing the bridge, but he made it across, brave chimp man that he is:

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Diana cleverly stuck some cattails on top of the roof for Annie’s birthday a few days ago and somehow it’s gone unnoticed by the chimps. Until this morning:

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Missy lucked out after Jamie left and found another one. The second she pulled it down a cloud of seeds blew across the hill:

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All during the photo shoot, Ellie enjoyed her favorite morning spot stretched out in the shade underneath the platform I was on, or as I like to call it, the elk port:

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Filed Under: Annie, Burrito, Foxie, Jamie, Jody, Missy, Sanctuary, Young's Hill Tagged With: animal rescue, Annie, Burrito, chimp enrichment, chimp sanctuary, chimpanzee, chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, Cle Elum 7, Cle Elum Seven, csnw, Foxie, Jamie, Jody, Missy, Sanctuary, young's hill

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