Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
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On the seventh day of Christmas, the chimpanzees received giant slinkies. There are some in the groups who love slinkies to play with. We all know that Burrito and Willy B loved slinkies. We are now finding out some of the newer residents also seem to enjoy them. We have seen Rayne and Dora play with them as well as Gordo, though we currently don’t have any footage of Gordo because of his somewhat elusive nature.
Special thank you to:
Marya B. for donating the slinkies!
I was really excited to give out the buffalo hooded blanket from the Comfort & Joy auction today for the fourth day of Christmas! Though I definitely have visions of Negra becoming a buffalo, I’m not surprised that it was Burrito who got it first!
Thank you to:
Lisa S. for being the winning bidder of the blanket!
As Diana stated yesterday, we have been having conflicts the past couple days in the chimp house. While fights are perfectly normal in chimpanzee society, it is nonetheless quite stressful for these events to take place. So far, today has been mostly full of relaxation and currently I see many chimps napping. Let’s all knock on wood now to ensure I didn’t jinx it!
Here’s some photos of the day!
Rayne:
Is this Rayne doing her ‘thinker pose’?
Jody:
Burrito:
Burrito looking past me to see if Chad is coming his way:
Greenhouse 1 blocked by snow:
View from top of Young’s Hill:
As a reminder, we have loaded our Amazon Wishlist with items to prepare for our holiday celebration for the chimps! We appreciate every single purchase so much! Link to wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2L5WRNKBKB8B2?ref_=wl_share
Burrito was a major distraction from Playroom cleaning for us this morning. Every time we saw him he was doing something wildly playful with one of his friends. I frequently abandoned poor Kelsi to do the cleaning by herself so I could grab some footage of the action!
Well, if you read the title you might be wondering, who didn’t shift? Or did they eventually shift? To answer your questions, yes and yes! This morning as caregiver Sofia and I were at the home-stretch of cleaning, we just needed to do the four front rooms. However, as I went to shift Jody decided she might want to stay in front room 2 and take a nap. Burrito being the gentleman that he is, did not want Jody to be alone, so he joined her on the bench. I think we all know that Burrito can’t stay still for very long, so Jody indulged him in a very lazy game of toe and ear grab. It was very sweet to watch them gently play and laugh with each other, so we shifted around them and cleaned all the other rooms. Once we were done cleaning the other rooms we gave them back access to the other front rooms, but it still didn’t look likely we would be getting that room anytime soon. I left for a few minutes and when I came back to check on them they had taken their game to the ground in front room 3. So long story short Jody and Bubba played a very sweet game and Sofia and I got to clean everything eventually!
Today is Wish List Wednesday! Today we wanted to highlight Jamie’s current favorite book (her stash is getting low):
This morning Burrito had a nice play session with Annie too:
Burrito:
Jody:
Burrito with Jody’s toes:
Willy B grooming himself:
For today’s blog, there really isn’t any theme or story. Just a random assortment of photos I was able to capture today before our monthly staff training.
And then there is Terry…
Don’t forget to check out our wish list! Christmas is fast approaching and things are being added almost daily to help us throw them a wonderful party this year! We are also in need some of the Shutterfly gift cards. We use these for multiple things, including purchasing Jamie’s custom made book of the caregivers’ XtraTuf boots.
Today’s enrichment theme (blanket forts) didn’t get the chimpanzees as excited as we caregivers thought they would be.
Instead, Burrito decided it was the perfect morning to goof around with a slinky!
Enjoy the video on this snowy winter afternoon.
