Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
Hope. Love. Home. Sanctuary
Tonight is the night! Please watch KCTS Connects at 7:30pm on Channel 9 in Western WA and BC and Channel 47 in Central WA. If you can’t watch tonight, it re-airs Sunday 1/25/09 at 10:30am on Channel 9.
And if you’re not in the Washington area, we’ll let you know when it gets posted online.
In the meantime, read the synopsis of the show.
Foxie continues to entertain us on a daily basis with her playfulness. Yesterday morning Burrito was her playmate. Foxie is holding a Madame Alexander doll that Cindy brought (like the British Boy) and Burrito has a scrub brush and a plastic wrench. He gets clocked in the face with the scrub brush at one point, but doesn’t seem to mind.
Last week, the same day that J.B. hung the mirror, Jody was wearing a striped glove on her foot. She wore it ALL day. Occasionally she would take it off and put it back on. She made a point of putting her toes into the fingers of the glove (at least some of her toes in some of the fingers), as you can see from the close up below. She wore the foot glove while inspecting the mirror as you can see in the second photo. That’s Jamie next to Jody half standing in the box. You just never know what the chimps will find appealing. It’s a good thing they receive so many great gifts – there’s always something for everyone in their daily enrichment! Thank you all so much for sending your care packages that are always full of fun gifts and warm sentiments. You make a difference in the lives of the Cle Elum Seven everyday.
So sorry for our site being down so often lately. We are working with Dreamhost to fix the problem and hope you’ll be patient with these outages!
J.B. hung the mirror today in the playroom that the blog/forum participants purchased for the Cle Elum Seven. The chimpanzees love it! Jamie was pretty intent on figuring out how to remove it from the wall, so J.B. put a frame around it at the end of the day. Below is a video and photos of their first inspections and reflections.
With the crazy weather, the chimps had not been able to go outside for a few days. It’s been sunny three days running now (with more to come!), and we’ve been able to give them a bit of outside time. They go out for brief periods even when it’s cold (but sunny) and windy – you can hear the wind in the video below. They run around, swing, play chase, and grab handfuls of snow to bring back inside.
Burrito just turned 26, which hardly makes him young. But we all know he is just a kid at heart. Below is some evidence… sometimes the best birthday gifts are the packages the gifts come in. What a nut 🙂
