Archives for July 7, 2025

Do you have a “focus” face? Where you’re intensely focusing on a task, and somehow making a face (like sticking your tongue out, or squinting your eyes) feels like it is helping you accomplish it? Sometimes I do, and I recently noticed that Lucky seems to have one when she was VERY focused on grooming. I was walking through, greeting the chimps after first arriving at the sanctuary for the day. Lucky poked a bamboo stick through the caging towards me, and wanted to groom. I thought she wanted to groom my arm, but when I turned to the side to allow her to do that, she started reaching towards my radio with her tool. When I realized that’s what she wanted, I held my radio out for her to groom, and she was immediately focused in on the blinking red light at the top of the radio. Whenever she got her bamboo stick just right where she was able to poke the red light, she would scrunch up her face a little bit, and curl her tongue over her top teeth. Check out today’s video to see Lucky inspecting and grooming all of the different grooves, buttons, and her favorite, the blinking red light!