The chimpanzees recently had some visitors from KIRO 7 News in Seattle, who put together this great piece about the sanctuary and the plans for expansion. Below is the video and here’s the link to the page on the KIRO 7 News page.
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Hope. Love. Home. Sanctuary
by Diana
The chimpanzees recently had some visitors from KIRO 7 News in Seattle, who put together this great piece about the sanctuary and the plans for expansion. Below is the video and here’s the link to the page on the KIRO 7 News page.
by Diana
Chimpanzees tend to appreciate access to vertical space. The outdoor habitat (Young’s Hill) at the sanctuary, since it’s built on a hill and has several climbing structures, is prime lookout territory.
It seems particularly important for Missy, Annie, and Foxie to get up high and survey the land in the morning. With all that’s changing lately, there’s a lot of new stuff to view!
Here’s Jody, Foxie and Annie in the early a.m.:
Foxie took her new bright-haired Strawberry Shortcake doll with her to all the lookout points this morning:
Missy and Annie found their own private perches:
Here’s one view they had:
by Diana
Jamie’s birthday isn’t until October 31st, but her friend Vicki sent her a very special gift recently.
by Diana
The lunch forage on the hill today included quite a variety of vegetables, but the beets were a favorite. Bonus: they are easy to carry back to the greenhouse to enjoy.
Eating beets temporarily stains the chimps’ white freckles a lovely shade of pink, and cleaning up the day after a beet feast is always more colorful.
Annie:
Missy:
Jamie:
Jody:
Negra (with Missy in the background)
If you are wondering about the troll doll by Negra’s feet in the photo above, she actually took a shine to it today. It’s Foxie who loves the troll dolls, but once in a while Negra decides to carry one around!
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On these summer mornings, when there’s still a slight coolness to the air and the sun is low in the sky, the chimpanzees often explore the outdoor habitat. They head out on their own, in pairs, or sometimes as a group, generally splitting off to do some private exploration. They go to the top of the towers to see if the landscape has changed, and they pick edible plants for an after-breakfast snack.
We don’t often get photos of this morning exploration because the humans are busy starting the cleaning for the day.
Today, however, we have a full house of volunteers! I took advantage of the help and went to the top of the observation tower to take a few photos while Deb, Lynn, Rachel, and Dusty scrubbed and disinfected the playroom.
I had to use the telephoto lens to identify the tiny specs of chimps in the distance and even that lens wasn’t able to zoom in very close with the chimps at the very top of the two-acre enclosure. They would sometimes disappear completely, hidden by the tall summer grass. I love watching them out on their own with no concern for the human activity in the building, just soaking in the day.
Missy and Annie:
Missy:
Missy and Annie heading back to the greenhouse:
Jody foraging for prickly lettuce:
Jamie doing her own thing:
by Diana
I first started working with chimpanzees in 1998, and I have been with the Cle Elum Seven for the entirety of their life at the sanctuary, even meeting them before they arrived on June 13, 2008.
And I still can’t believe that I have the privilege of caring for these amazing, playful, temperamental, intelligent, sensitive, wild, unpredictable, joyful, unique people.
by Diana
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