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George + Cy + ?

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George’s integration into a social group continues! This is very likely the only time in his life he’s been with two other adult male chimpanzees at the same time!

Big congrats to Ellen for leading this successful introduction and thanks to J.B. for the footage.

The trio spent the whole day together and tonight George and Cy are a duo once again with Gordo back with his group.

Our plan is to carry out the same process with other chimpanzees, with George and Cy remaining together. This will give us some information on group dynamics that one-on-one intros don’t provide and will give Cy the opportunity to decide what to do if there’s a conflict between George and another chimpanzee.

Tensions did rise at one point and George and Cy had an every-so-brief mild scuffle today. Gordo did not get involved. For a chimpanzee intro, we couldn’t have asked for a better result that these three. We feel proud of all of them.

Honey B and Terry Back Together

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The video pretty much says it all.

No, that’s not true.

I’m sure J.B. will have more to share about the Terry and Gordo switch tomorrow!

I know some people are having trouble accessing our videos when clicking on the embedded videos on the blog. For some reason, YouTube has decided to ask people to sign in to their accounts to access videos. I guess it’s a known issue. If you are having trouble, here’s a link to watch the video directly on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZ3ozNReQY

I’m also curious what happens if I include the video here instead of through our top posting system, so here it is:

Morning Play!

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This morning, Jenna and I were cleaning the playroom when we were greeted with delightful chimpanzee laughter coming from the front rooms.  Can you guess who?  Of course, it was Burrito and his good friend Foxie!  Wrestling, poking, tickling, biting, pushing, pulling…all the things required for a raucous play session.  We really wanted to capture this fun time without catching the ire of the fun police.  How do you think we did?

The Unification of the Stubborn Shifters

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As longtime blog readers might know, Honey B can be a challenge for staff when we are trying to close off certain enclosures for cleaning. She likes to throw an obstinate wrench in our best-laid plans. Lucky is also one of those chimpanzees that doesn’t always see the need to cooperate with the shifting schedule from time to time. Today Lucky and Honey B joined their strong willed forces together and stayed behind in the front rooms rather than shifting with their group during morning cleaning . Much to our surprise, their “quiet alone time” morphed into a wrestle session of epic proportions. Shout out to staff caregiver Grace for grabbing all the video for today’s blog!