Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest
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Yesterday caregiver Ellen and I found ourselves with some free time in the chimp house while most of the team was busy at a training workshop. So of course we filled our time doing some positive reinforcement training with the chimps, check it out in today’s blog video!
Caregiver Ellen has previously wrote a blog about Rayne’s dry forehead treatment and today is a follow-up! During Positive Reinforcement Training sessions, we continue to work on applying lotion to Rayne’s dry forehead so she’s more comfortable and less itchy. Her dry forehead seems to be genetic and as you can see, she is quite tolerant of allowing us to apply topicals to her head to help treat it. It takes a few minutes to cover the entire surface because we do smaller strokes with the brush. However, there were a few moments in the video where she let me do several strokes back and forth before bringing her hand up, which was awesome.
Good job, Rayne!
