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Hanukkah and Christmas Eve

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Anna and I decided to give the chimps some treats today to celebrate both the first night of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve. You may have noticed that we are pretty strict with the chimpanzees’ diet – nothing with added sugar, very little salt, and rarely any processed foods. Most of their diet consists of raw (sometimes cooked) fruits and vegetables, seeds, nuts, and a bit of commercially made primate chow, which is like a protein biscuit.

Even when we treat the chimps to something they don’t get very often, we try to stick to our dietary goals. It keeps them healthy, and they still love the food they get everyday!

In celebration of Christmas Eve, we set out “milk and cookies” (watered down warm almond milk + primate chow). I’d say it was a hit:

 

Burrito:

 

Jamie:

 

Foxie:

 

Missy:

 

Negra:

 

Jody looking pretty happy:

 

For the Hanukkah part of the celebration, Anna made some delicious looking (and delicious tasting – we had to try them for ourselves) salt-free potato latkes and  I made some sugar-free chunky applesauce to go on top.

 

The chimps ate the latkes so fast, we weren’t able to get many photos.

 

Foxie brought France Dora to the meal, because she’s cosmopolitan like that:

 

Jamie being served by Anna with Burrito on the right:

 

Missy  being served with Burrito looking on (I promise Burrito got at least his fair share too):

 

Annie took her latkes to the doorway to savor:

 

Definitely a win for fun food today!

 

In between the treats we humans came up with, they found some of their own…

 

And made some time to rest too:

 

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and holiday wishes to everyone! There will be even more treats for the chimps tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who supports the sanctuary – you make EVERY day a celebration.

 

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Chimpanzee Displays: Causing a Ruckus

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J.B. shared a slo mo video of Jamie displaying yesterday (her slowed down vocalization sounds pretty intimidating!).

In keeping with the theme, below is a video of all seven chimpanzees taking part in displaying earlier today.

If you are interested in this sort of thing, you might also find this video that shows and explains a conflict among the chimpanzees, a fascinating watch.

 
Missy pant-hooting

 

Chimpanzee Identification Contest

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Do you want to win a 2017 Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest calendar?

If you can correctly identify each chimpanzee in all seven photos below, you’ll be entered to win!

Fine print: You can only enter once, so be sure of your answer before submitting your responses. The winner will be chosen at random among those with correct answers on Monday morning at 11:00am. If you are a volunteer of the sanctuary, you’re not eligible, because that wouldn’t be fair – but we’ll figure out another way for you to have a chance to win a calendar.

You can write your guesses in a comment below this post, or if you want more anonymity, email me: [email protected].

This is an “open book” quiz, so feel free to go through old blog posts and look on the chimpanzees’ individual pages (click on the Polaroid-looking photos at the very top of the page).

Here we go:

#1

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#2

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#3

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#4

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#5

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#6

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#7

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Chimpanzees playing = your #GivingTuesday thanks!

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Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest supporters have done it again! We initially made it a goal to raise $12,000 today for Giving Tuesday.

 

Burrito Giving Tuesday

That goal has been surpassed, and we have a new challenge – a supporter at a distance is putting a matching challenge check in the mail for the next $1,000 raised, so I’ve increased the total goal to $15,000.

There’s still eight hours to go before midnight. Can we do it?

I am pretty sure that the video at the end of this post that Anna took today of the chimpanzees playing will inspire you to donate if you haven’t already and will also hopefully inspire you to share this post so more people know about our new goal.

We’ve been inspired all day by the messages that have come in with donations. This recent comment really summed it all up (thank you!): What makes my heart soar is “Knowing that Annie, Burrito, Foxie, Jaime, Jody, Missy and Negra are safe, happy, living a full enriching life with companionship and are so very loved! I am so thrilled about the expansion and future retirees that will be joining you soon! Thank you for giving lives back.”

We were also inspired by Mary, a challenge donor earlier in the day who first heard about the sanctuary in 2007 through her daughter who was enrolled in the Primate Behavior program at Central Washington University at the time. Mary helped with the early construction of the chimp house, setting forms in the cold and helping with roof trusses during the windy season. Mary has been a donor ever since, and her generous pledge today helped surpass our goal.

Donor stories make my heart soar!

And chimpanzees playing. Definitely chimpanzees playing.

Foxie the Chimpanzee and Poppy the Troll

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Foxie’s love of troll dolls started over eight years ago when she arrived at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest. She still loves the old school trolls, but now that there’s a new DreamWorks Animation film called Trolls, and you can bet that Foxie is going to benefit from the marketing.

Foxie likes the songs by Justin Timberlake that are in the trailers.

Her favorite doll so far seems to be Poppy, whose voice in the animated movie is Anna Kendrick. With this description of Poppy, they do sound like kindred spirits.

poppy troll description

 

Foxie holding Poppy troll

Foxie holding Poppy troll

Foxie laying with Poppy troll