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!
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thanks for the update on the sweetest potted plant. cutest face ever
Shes heard voices of people she knows coming out of there, how does this thing work??
I like the peanut butter all over the caging in front of her face!!
Oh, Lucky Lou, that’s a funny one! A colleague’s wife actually sticks her tongue out of one side of her mouth when she’s concentrating. She’s the first human I’ve ever met that does that.
Honey B may know her way around the hose reel but Lucky seems to know how to make a call on the radio! I hope everyone doesn’t compare notes! 🙂 Lucky was very focused on her grooming techniques and her expression was quite funny! I’m guilty of sporting a focus face when doing very intricate work. I just don’t look as cute as Lucky when making my face.
Oh if she could only hit that button and ask for more peanut butter or fruit kabobs.
aw. that was great. We don’t often get to see Lucky at work. at one point she had the head position of a person wearing bifocals. you know the one, head tilted back, eyes down. that darn caging was in the way.