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Foot Box or Head box?

November 18, 2020 by Kelsi

This is Jamie.

As many may know, Jamie tends to be a more serious chimp and is incredibly intelligent. You can always see the wheels turning in her head. Jamie knows what she likes and isn’t afraid to ask for or demand what she needs. Often when she is gesturing for one of us to put boots on she has a specific boot in mind and we won’t go on a walk until she has the one she wants. She is never scared to ask for what she needs! It might be the trait I admire about her the most. Jamie is a busy body, she will build an amazing nest to settle in for a nice nap and the next moment she is gone grabbing an enrichment item to try to break the howdy door open to see her neighbors. As a disclaimer, it is usually a wooden toy or object that will not break the lock. But, you can’t blame her for having a hard time relaxing when there are so many people to manage. As I have mentioned before, Jamie has a good sense of humor too. When she wants to, she can get downright silly.

In the mornings while we are cleaning the playroom Jamie will often find the caregiver of her choice, have them put on the boot of her choice (Diana’s Xtratuf boots with the blue), walk or run around the Hill, and then settle into a nest or observe us cleaning from the window in the green house. Yesterday, Jamie decided that I should not clean, but instead play… I had given Jamie her new boot catalog which she seemed very pleased about. Jamie took her book and began to build a nest and skimming through the book. At some point, we were playing a game where she would put her hand in the foot box and I would knock on the box. Then Jamie put her head in the box! I would gently knock the box, she did this a few times. Afterward, we played a bit of chase and then she burst into a sprint with her new book in her mouth. I apologized to Chad and took off running to catch up with Jamie on the Hill.

Bonus!

Last Wednesday as we were closing up the chimp house for the night. I found Jody working on some night time enrichment. I have never seen Jody go to such great lengths for night time enrichment before!

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  1. Cara Berman says

    November 18, 2020 at 5:49 pm

    That Jamie! Head in the box is hilarious!

  2. Kathleen says

    November 18, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    Jamie never ceases to amaze and astound! How hard did you laugh when Jamie peeked her head into the Foot Box?! Clearly this is one of her downright silly moments. Such a funny photo. Jody looks like a spider in her web, she’s pulling out all the stops to get her enrichment goodies.

  3. Tobin says

    November 18, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    Yowz! I sure hope that Jamie’s head doesn’t get stuck in there. She’s got a lot of bossing-around to do.

  4. Debi says

    November 18, 2020 at 9:40 pm

    While these ten fascinating chimps are having their evening enrichment, they’re actually providing real enrichment to my own evenings…I so look forward to your blogs throughout the day, & the absolute wonderful stories you have to share with us…

    I treasure your sanctuary & heartfelt mission…I also treasure the extraordinarily CUTE photo of Professor Jamie in the foot & head box…Next time she’ll probably have something pretty wrapped around her head, & then it will also be known as a “hatbox”…

  5. Judy says

    November 19, 2020 at 12:56 am

    Your blog posts are our night bags ?

  6. CeeCee says

    November 19, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    I love that head-box picture of Jamie !
    I really think It could be a million dollar auction artwork of some kind.
    Or, it almost looks like an amazing piece of jewelry.
    Like a locket, that you open to find a Jamie head inside.
    I’d buy one ! 🙂

    • Linda C says

      November 20, 2020 at 8:24 pm

      It’s such a good pic of her face, the clarity and the details are amazing!

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