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Archives for October 22, 2024

Burrito in Low

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If we know anything about Burrito chimpanzee, we know that this guy is busy!  So busy running, playing, grooming, chasing, leaping, scooting, bouncing, skipping, hollering, foraging…you get the picture!  This guy never sits still!

So here is your opportunity to enjoy a few low key moments with our favorite energizer bunny!  A little lounging, a little nesting, and a very little bit of play.

How much do we love this guy?

Shout out to Jerrol’s for providing huge bags of recycled paper for all the papery fun these chimps are having these days!

And DON’T FORGET!  We want you to help us choose the cover photo for our 2025 CSNW Calendar! You can vote once every 24-hours through the end of October, with the poll closing at 11:59pm PT on Jamie-ween!

Happy Birthday, Becky, from Tobin!

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Many thanks to Tobin for sponsoring a day of sanctuary in celebration of her friend Becky! *(As you will note, this gift was intended for October 15h and it’s now quite past the 15th and we apologize for this oversight on our end! But everyone should have a birthday month really, so…).

Tobin shared this note about Becky:

“I am sponsoring today, October 15th, as a belated birthday gift to my friend Becky. Like Negra, Becky is one of these medical mysteries who is aging in reverse.

As readers of the sanctuary website will recall, it was six months ago today that David Attenborough (presumably) narrated a feature on a rare primate species, pan Hibenatus.

Now my friend Becky does not bear any resemblance to any of the residents at the sanctuary. Her hairdo is longer than Mave’s and she has more freckles than Terry. Nor does she resemble Neggie in any pronounced way.

Except in one aspect! When Becky isn’t caring for elderly humans, or running in footraces, or climbing mountain ranges, or canoeing through boreal forestlands, or mastering new languages to use when traveling abroad on mission trips, or supervising her very own wildlife sanctuary (in residence: three rescue cats, one rescue dog, and – contingent upon seasonal migratory patterns – pet peeves). Why, you’d almost think that, but for 1.24% of the requisite genetic material, that she, too, is one of those pan Hibernata; ‘spending the majority of her existence in an extended state of torpor’, as the narrator said.

With any luck, both Becky and our Royal pan Hibernata can be roused from their slumbers to experience what I hope will be a beautiful autumn day in their respective habitats.”

Happy Birthday, Becky! Hope it was a gorgeous day and continues to be a gorgeous month!

Terry:

Mave:

Meredith:

Gordo: