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In the Zone

February 16, 2025 by Diana

Chad recently shared an article that I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. You can read the whole article here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0382

The bit that caught my imagination was this:

‘Positive animal welfare is defined as the animal flourishing through the experience of predominantly positive mental states and the development of competence and resilience’.

In humans, flourishing is a composite concept that typically includes positive emotions, life satisfaction or happiness, engagement, meaning and purpose or a sense of achievement, fulfilling and supportive social relationships and resilience [20,21]. Flourishing links to mental and physical wellbeing [22,23]. Other authors refer to the achievement of one’s full potential [24]. Animals may experience attributes linked to flourishing such as affective happiness, defined as a long-term state reflective of how an animal feels most of the time [25], flow as a state of complete absorption in an intrinsically rewarding activity [26], and supportive and fulfilling social relationships [27]. Thus, flourishing is an aspirational goal for scientists and animal caretakers to work towards understanding and enabling in animals. Research is needed to identify (likely species-specific) features, scientific methods and valid indicators of flourishing in animals.

The part I bolded in the quote above is what I’ve been pondering. It lead me to put together today’s video that shows what may be chimpanzees in a flow state.

What do you think? What flow states did I miss? What was your favorite to watch?

Filed Under: Burrito, Chimpanzee Behavior, Cy, Jamie, Jody, Sanctuary, Young's Hill Tagged With: flourishing, flow, video clips

A CSNW Clip Show

January 10, 2023 by Chad de Bree

As I was clearing out my phone to make room for more memory, there were several small clips that were too short to make a video out of at the time. So just like those TV shows that inevitably air a “clip show” of random scenes from the season, please enjoy the CSNW Clip Show!

Some bonus photos from today:

Can you guess who the dinosaur is? (Hint: the answer is in the video!)

Foxie and Strawberry Shortcake:

Jamie, Foxie, and Strawberry Shortcake:

Burrito:

A King of his domain:

Mid-yawn

Watching Jody on the other structure:

The answer to question above is Negra!!! Negra was in the hooded dinosaur blanket!

Filed Under: Latest Videos, Sanctuary Tagged With: Burrito, Foxie, Jamie, latest video, Negra, snow, video clips, young's hill

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