Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

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Thanksgiving Party!

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It was an exciting morning here at CSNW! We did a lunch forage with pomegranates, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, avocados, cabbage, and bananas, and volunteer Jeani found some Brussels sprout stalks- what a treat! Right now, volunteer CJ is preparing cranberry sauce, green onions, and eggplant for the chimps dinner. I can’t wait to hear the squeaks over the cranberry sauce!

Here’s Annie with her Brussels sprout stalk:

Pomegranates are ALWAYS a hit, so we put out whole ones. Guaranteed food squeaks!

Jamie, mid-squeak:

Jody:

Since hiding the food in boots was such a hit on Jamie’s Birthday, we filled boots (and socks, and hats, and troll dolls, and various other containers) with food. Yum! It seemed to get everyone in the spirit.

Jamie:

Jody:

Burrito:

Burrito with a bottle filled with cauliflower:

We all have so many things to be thankful for, and we are all so grateful for all of you supporters! We truly could not do this without you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Annie-isms

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If you are signed up for our E-newsletter, you know we talked about some of Annie’s antics in the latest edition. You may have wondered about some of them, namely her “bird noises”, and I don’t blame you– it sounds weird! But it happens, and here’s proof, along with some of her other silly antics.

Chewing

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Human culture has a lot of hang-ups. While they have their place, we have all of these “rules”, like keep your elbows off the dinner table, and always close your mouth while chewing. Don’t get me wrong here- chimp culture has rules too, but to me, there is something so satisfying about watching the chimps so openly smack their lips while they chew their food. Especially Foxie, who is by far the coolest chewer I know.

Nuts for chimps

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One of the chimps’ favorite foods is nuts. At the end of each day, we give the chimps “night bags”, which are paper bags of unsalted nuts, seeds, popcorn, unsweetened dried fruit and various other goodies. The ingredients change based on what we have, but one thing is for sure- nuts are always in the mix! All of the chimps get pretty excited over night bags, especially Negra, who LOVES nuts.

For our next Chimps’ Choice, we would like to stock up on unsalted, in shell mixed nuts, jumbo walnuts, and almonds for our night bags and for forages. I have added the specific types we would like to our Amazon wishlist, both because we do not give the chimps much salt, and because we are stocked up on certain other types of nuts (for example: we have plenty of peanuts!).

So take a look at our Amazon wishlist and help us provide a more varied night bag for the chimps, and as always, I’ll send you something special in return.

Here’s a little inspiration:

Annie:

Burrito:

Foxie:

Jamie:

Jody:

Missy:

Negra, the queen of night bags, herself: