Annie’s 40th
September 10, 2014 by Debbie -
We celebrated Annie’s 40th birthday today! Her exact birthday is unknown since she was captured in the wild, but her records indicate that she was born sometime in 1974, and today is the day we picked to celebrate it. Annie certainly doesn’t act 40 at all! She’s still very young at heart—she shows her playful side daily when wrestling with Missy or running around Young’s Hill.
We wanted to celebrate her special day with some of her favorites—green grass, beets, green onions, piñatas, buckets of water, shovels, and chow! Thanks to some supplies Lisa Stuverud brought us we had a fun colorful party with new enrichment, too. We set up a breakfast forage first, and then volunteer Becca served Annie’s favorite veggies at lunch.
Here’s the party setup:
I love this photo — you can see the juice from the tangerine spraying to the side! Good shot by Elizabeth.
Annie with a mouthful of chow (she loves to wadge chow!)
Annie loves green grass, so we picked some for her and included bunches of it in their breakfast forage:
Some of her favorite veggies are green onions and beets:
The other chimps enjoyed the party too! Burrito the charmer practically posed during the forage for this photo:
Everyone loved the fruit! Here’s Jamie:
Jody:
Foxie:
Missy loved the green grass:
And Jody ended up getting the piñatas (there was a Dora the Explorer piñata too, but that was torn up before we could snap a photo!)
Foxie got a new troll and some knuckle rubs from Diana, which made her laugh:
And Negra spent a lot of time in hard-to-see spots during the day, but I did get this picture of her beautiful relaxed face:
Happy 40th Birthday, Annie!
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Happy BD! Annie!!!<3
Happy Birthday Annie! I wish you and all the chimps many more wonderful days! How I love the beautiful expressive faces.
Happy Birthday Annie! Thank you for posting all these wonderful photos of these precious Friends enjoying this celebration and their life together 🙂 Can’t believe its been a year since I sent the paper mache beach balls that you used for Annies last party and I still haven’t gotten to sending more fun stuff. I love these Chimps and seeing the fun you make for them everyday brings tears of joy to my eyes. Bless them and you all! Cheers!
Happy Birthday Annie! Sending you happy healthy wishes to last the entire year! Looks like a wonderful party as always. (I could almost taste that juicy tangerine)
Looks like a fun day was had by all – thank you for posting these great pictures.
A belated but very happy birthday to our beautiful Annie!
Very Happy Late Birthday to Annie – it’s nice to see that the red boots I sent to Jamie have multiple uses:)
Great!
Happy birthday Annie! 😀
Happy Birthday Annie, your beautifully!
Thank you for posting the party, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used the chimps as an inspiration when obstacles present themselves in my life. They live in the moment!