I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such silly behavior revolving around food.
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Foxie is a-Dora-ble
Foxie has received so many new Dora the Explorer dolls in the last week- mostly from her great friend, Leslie Sodaro, who has been collecting for the last several weeks. We tied several together with a string, which resulted in some a-DORA-bleness.
Foxie has such great friends! On behalf of the lady herself, thanks so much to all for keeping Foxie so happy and enriched!
good looking chimpanzees
J.B. took some amazing photos of Burrito, Foxie and Jody yesterday. Three cheers for summer on Young’s Hill!
Burrito being handsome:
artistic shot of Foxie in the foreground and a blurry Annie sitting on a log in the background:
Foxie with one of her dolls:
Jody grazing:
Foxie’s tongue is famous
If you’ve liked us on Facebook, you’ve probably seen some posts recently about Foxie’s reaction to the new GoPro camera in news articles around the world. Today, the article was posted on Huffington Post. (Click the link to go to the article).
Just to correct a misunderstanding—Foxie does still love trolls and other dolls (like Dora!) but she is not still carrying around Trixie, her original troll. She will sometimes find a troll or doll that she likes enough to carry around for a few days, but not much longer than that. (Also, as many of you know, the chimps were rescued close to four years ago—not just last year like that article says. However, it was just last year that they were given access to a 2-acre habitat of relative freedom).
In this picture, Foxie’s got her tongue out, and both a troll and Dora doll in her hand.
A colorful, crunchy lunch
The chimps had what only could be described as a gorgeous lunch in the greenhouse today– mini bell peppers, carrots, rhubarb and red grapefruit. Not only was it delicious, but it was colorful too.
Annie and her mini bell peppers:
The rhubarb came from volunteer Renee’s garden. She brought it out yesterday when she came out to help me in the chimps’ garden (Thanks, Renee!). I’ve never thought the chimps liked rhubarb all that much, but they seemed to enjoy it today. Here’s Missy munching on hers:
Annie:
Foxie was especially content with lunch. She kicked back with a couple of carrots
and you know you’ve done good when you catch her rubbing her troll’s belly.
Race for the Apes was so much fun!
Our first ever 5K fundraiser was a blast. Big, big thank you to volunteers April Graham and Laura Heggs for organizing the Ellensburg event – you did a terrific job! After expenses, the event raised $5,530 for the sanctuary!
Here are a few photos to prove how much fun it was:
Volunteers Seana (who was also the raffle sponsor), Connie and Emily working on registration under race organizer April’s direction, with our new Director of Development, Michael, looking on:
The start of the great chalk messaging courtesy of volunteer Stephanie:
Board member Jessica (right) and partner Lisa donned tutus in honor of Jamie:
Race organizer April of AlignFit leading a stretching class prior to the start of the run:
the runners approaching the start line:
and they’re off!
About 15 minutes later, the “troll strollers” (walkers) began:
in just 21 minutes, 37 seconds, the first runner, Kurtis, crossed the finish line:
two minutes, eight seconds later, the fastest woman in the race, Keri, crossed the finish:
Event organizer Laura Heggs, running to the finish after clearing up some signs from the course:
One of the glitter-bombed “trollphy” awards:
This is just a small sampling of the photos from the event. Visit the full gallery and purchase your favorites – proceeds from sales go to the chimps!
Thanks to sponsors Gorilla Screen Printing for the discount on the great t-shirts, Zing Bars for delicious post-running nutrition (the coconut chocolate bars are amaZING!) and AlignFit for the stretching class. Individual donors, like Ape Ally Adrienne Armstrong, made a huge difference in the success of the fundraiser. See all sponsors and donors here.
Our volunteers are always top-notch and dove right in to the new event.
And the participants were terrific!
We can’t wait to do it again!
Breakfast on the hill
If you “like” us on Facebook, you may have seen our update yesterday that the chimps got to enjoy breakfast in the sunshine on Young’s Hill. It was a gorgeous day– absolutely perfect for a tropical forage (coconuts, pineapple, and lettuce).
