Wow, have we had a jam packed week and it’s only Wednesday! We had a procedure on Monday, a presentation on Tuesday, and Foxie’s birthday tomorrow!
Speaking of presentations, some of our favorite outreach events are the ones in our community! Yesterday Jenna, Grace, and I participated in the Summer Reading Program at the Carpenter Memorial Library in Cle Elum, hosted by the Cle Elum Fire Department. The Summer Reading Program has an array of different guest speakers that cover topics from learning about bee keeping, to exploring the fire station, to learning about wildlife tracking from Fish and Wildlife, and of course learning about the chimps!
Grace, Jenna, and I had different interactive stations for the kids to go to. For the first station, we showed the kids how to make enrichment for the chimps like raisin boards, paper braids, and fire hose knots! The second station was learning how to build a nest, which is always so fun to learn about, but obviously we had a nest building competition. For our third station we taught everyone about chimp vocalizations & behaviors, which obviously we taught everyone how to pant hoot!
Jenna teaching how to make raisin boards:
Here is Grace showing everyone an amazing nest she built:
Anna had to work yesterday, but Luna stopped by and built her own nest. I would say Anna has taught Luna well:
Here I am showing different vocalizations:
Thank you to the Carpenter Memorial Library and the Cle Elum Fire Department for having us! We had such a blast being apart of the community and teaching everyone about the chimps we love so dearly!
Bonus photo of Jamie:
Here is Willy B in recovery today! He is doing well and enjoying his stories on the TV:
Wow! I practically lived at my hometown library as a kid. If something like this educational opportunity had showed up, I’d have built a nest and never left! What a treat for you folks to have that lovely audience and hosts! Pant hoots all around!
Same!
I grew up on a lake in the country, so all we had was the bookmobile. But I lived it all the same!
Books are magic – just ask Cy and Jamie! 😀
Kelsi, I see Mr Willy B has chosen hot pink as his nail color! Good way to keep him distracted!
Has he tried any new movies?
And I trust that, per yesterday’s blog post, you explained that, fascinating relatives in the Evolutionary Tree as chimpanzees are, they do not make good household pets at all.
What fun for the community to learn about the chimps hands on! No doubt Luna was a plant in nest building! At her young age she could join in on the caregivers competition. That’s an excellent looking nest.
Thanks for the bonus photos. Willy B appears to be his handsome self. Hope he’s taking his meds and enjoying being spoiled in the healing room.
Wow, you ladies sure had a fun day at the Cle Elum CM Library and apart from entertaining those kids you also educated them in chimp matters! Also, it’s grest to see Willy B getting stronger each day
What a blessing to the community. Getting to know the marvelous chimp family in their very own backyard! wow!