Jamie was hanging out on the catwalk of the playroom:
George was sitting by a window grooming himself in the Marmot Mountain playroom:
We have a lot of photos of Lucky from this angle. She’s sitting on the “tree” structure in the Oakwood Greenhouse, looking down while being groomed by her brother, Cy:
I liked this close-up of Lucky’s chin:
Negra spent time with Annie today in their greenhouse:
A lot of people have reached out asking about Negra, her declining mobility, and her health. Thank you all so much for loving her.
We are definitely in a “hope for the best and prepare for the worst” mindset right now, and we wanted to be sure you, too, were prepared, as much as that’s possible. We can’t predict how much time she has left, and her quality of life considerations are unique to her. She’s never been very active or overly social, so being separated from the group is probably easier on her than it would be on most of the other chimpanzees.
Today, she still got out to the greenhouse and climbed to the top of the structure – not as easily as she used to, but she did it. She ate some of her favorite foods, she was visited by some old human friends, and she let Annie groom her.
We’ve added some hand-holds and hanging fire hose in the front rooms so she has more to hold onto when climbing up to the benches, and we’re working on some other modifications to help her get to where she likes to spend time.
Here she is this afternoon in a nest up high on a bench in one of the front rooms:
