Believe it or not, Jamie, the self-appointed boss, has a tendency to hoard enrichment food puzzles. If we put out a dozen Kongs with peanuts in them, Jamie always winds up with a big pile and more than her fair share. To encourage “sharing,” we try to spread out the enrichment as far as possible and we attach a lot of the chimps’ puzzles to the enclosure caging. We use padlocks to hang raisin boards and other puzzles and we have recently introduced dipper tubes which we screw into fixed spots on the outside of their enclosure. With a lot of focus and determination, Jamie has made these new dipper tubes into her own unique personal project. As you’ll see, she loves a good challenge!
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I am just blown away by the intelligence of Jamie as she got her Peanut Butter tube detached and on her side of the enclosure. What a brilliant girl.
i do love a smart woman!
This is absolutely incredible !! Hard to believe unless you see it with your own eyes. Amazing !! Jamie is something else !! 😀 <3 <3
Jamie, beauty and brains!
For the humans out there who still believe only humans can plan ahead — by using self control and imagining future events and outcomes — please show them this video. Conclusive proof! Man, does Jamie have extraordinary patience. All that hard work and then she saves her treat for later too!?! Amazing. The real treat for Jamie really is all about working her beautiful brain and diving into the challenge.
Thank you, thank you for finally allowing Jamie to be The Enrichment Nerd she was meant to be. How she must have suffered, as an intelligent individual, trapped in the small emptiness of her lab cage. Pains me deeply to think about it. All the more reason to release and retire, as was promised, all the chimpanzees who are still waiting for their life in sanctuary.
Just fabulous!!!!!!!!!! Loved her determination and skill!! What a gal!!!!! So intelligent! Thank you soooooo much for this Anna, truly is a delight!!
Once again, duty compels me to send a copy of this video to my friend who teaches in the Behavioral Psychology Department at Western Michigan University. Who needs yet another demonstration of a mouse pulling on a string to reach a piece of cheese when the Amazing Jamie ably demonstrates how to retrieve added nutritional enrichment. Well done, Boss!
She is remarkable. Thank you for the video. What patience and intelligence she has.