You may have figured out by now that Jamie is a tough chimp to enrich. Her mind is so active and she requires a lot to keep engaged. Part of our job as caregivers is to come up with new ways to keep the chimpanzees enriched, and in particular, keeping Jamie busy.
Though raisin boards are already a puzzle in themselves (the chimps usually have to use tools to get the raisins out), it’s even more so when they are just out of reach. Jamie prefers the challenges. She will go right past the raisin boards that are hidden under a blanket and aim for the ones that are harder puzzles to solve.
Here you see she even learns from her own mistakes—the first board she dropped too quickly and it went too far for her to reach. At first she looks around for a tool to grab the raisin board but decides to work on the more accessible one and leave the other project for later (don’t worry—she got that one eventually, too).
After seeing this video (and likely even without watching you know already) I think you will agree that Jamie is amazing.
Love Jamie letting you know it was time to turn off the camera at the end lol.
I keep telling you — Jamie needs to go to vet school so she could run your clinic! 😉
what a bigtime smarty-pants ..
.. loved that bit at the end too – NOW SCRAM!!
What a gal! If not vet school, she should at least become adjunct faculty at CWU…
so how did she get the one that was out of reach?
She found a long tool to get it closer to the caging 🙂
She’s a smart little bugger! God only knows how she dealt with day to day life in a small cage with all she does now at Sanctuary! Bless you Miss Jamie!
Jamie is so awesome.
Freak’n incredible! That girl never ceases to impress me.
Genius Jamie would make an excellent engineer. Love to her!
Not just another pretty face!
That was amazing to watch! Glad you guys are constantly thinking of new ways to puzzle her- keep up the good work!
Loved the end…”ok, everyone has seen how smart I am, now turn that thing off so I can eat in peace!”
She is just amazing!! What is next?
WOW! Jammie is awesome — no news to any of us as you noted! That was so cool to see. Like Cody Marie stated above, how did she survive her prior life in the lab?! The mental anguish on top of everything else, I have such respect for these creatures. I learn from them all the time. ; )
Love the Raisin puzzle toy!!! You guys rock!
Wow! What more can you say?