Willy B must be feeling pretty good about himself these days, as he seems to be setting some of the new girls’ hearts a flutter. The first time they laid eyes on him, Dora and Rayne pant-grunted towards him and then turned to each other and hugged. And now, each time Willy B goes outside, Dora rushes to the greenhouse bench overlooking the courtyard to watch him.
For now, we are trying to regulate any close interactions between the groups, even ones that are consistent with our quarantine protocols, so that none of the chimps are able to direct dominance displays at any other individuals in particular (which could complicate potential future introductions if allowed to go on too long). The windows directly between the two areas they are currently separated into have been semi-permanently covered with thick plastic sheets and we’ll do the same to the cage walls dividing the playrooms and the greenhouses before quarantine ends and the groups live side by side. But there’s one area where two windows sit across a small mechanical room from one another and in there we simply covered one over in paper, meaning we can easily give the groups a peek at one another. So today we tried that. It was surprisingly mellow!
Mave, Willy B, and Honey B all came down to Front Room 7, the medical enclosure, to see what was going on.
They were greeted at the opposite window by Rayne, Gordo, and Dora.
As soon as Willy B approached the window, Dora stood up, smiled, and swayed back and forth. She had never been so close to him before. Terry joined her as well.
Cy then strolled in carrying one of his magazines.
Now we see what he’s been so interested in.
Lucky somehow missed out on today’s excitement but she’ll get a chance to see them soon enough!
Do they remember each other from their time at the Wildlife Waystation?
Their first interaction, how exciting! Hopefully, it will one day lead to these two groups being able to integrate. I’m sure Willy B would love to have some more ladies who are smitten with him!
Oh, that picture of Dora standing bipedally when Willy appeared! Beautiful! Apropos to the event, Cy appeared with a copy of Modern Romance in his hand…has he taken a fancy to the blond pictured on the page of the magazine?
Thank you for the posts….they always make my heart smile..,especially on bad days..#lovethemall
Cy’s investigating collagen lip treatment.
interesting!
Dora is aDORAble! (Hope the person I stole that from is okay with that!)
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LOVE is in the air. Adorable.
Oh stop! This is causing me to chuckle since I too find Willy B to be extremely handsome. Now I know it’s not just human primates who swoon over his good looks, clearly the chimpanzee ladies also see what we see in him! Are the girls equally curious about Mave and Honey B or is the real focus on Mr. Handsome? Watch out new “Lucky Fellows”, there’s a new man on campus!
The photos of the first up-close peeks at each other are just priceless. I guess Cy is feeling a little stressed out being in quarantine and like some of us humans, when it is over he wants to be sure he is looking his very best (especially now that he knows he has new competition!). Cy is researching a little collagen touch-up and perhaps a lip plumper to do the trick. But I think he is absolutely perfect as is.
Thanks for the photos and laugh J.B.
I mean, the “cougars” over in the original chimp house called it- what’s not to like?! He’s a handsome dude….
Dora has laser beams coming out of her eyes! LOL
Absolutely precious pictures! Thank you