Missy and Annie often play a long morning game of chase on Young’s Hill. This game isn’t always so obvious to the observer because it involves them each taking long breaks on opposing structures, where they seem to be doing their own thing. However, with just a flicker of communication between the two of them, the game resumes periodically, and usually ends with one racing the other back into the greenhouse.
This morning we got a nice rain storm at the sanctuary, so the ground was soaked when the chimps made there way out onto the hill. Annie and Missy’s game seemed to also include touching the earth as little as possible.
Annie spent a lot of time bipedal so she only had to touch wet grass with as few limbs as possible.
Until she could get off the ground..
Missy moved from structure to structure in her own style:
Annie wasn’t adverse to drinking the new moisture:
The chimps moved up the hill with Annie finding another playmate for a brief game of this terrifying (to human eyes) game of chase and wrestle:
That’s Foxie’s brow ridge you can barely see poking up from the platform below:
Meanwhile Missy investigated the wild plants to see if anything was worth eating:
But here comes Annie!
They reconvened on the logs before racing to the newest structure!
Then more wrestling was on the agenda:
A quick stop at the final platform before it was time to run inside. Somehow Missy knows how to get those short little legs to move at astonishing speeds 🙂
