Editor’s Note: Every day at CHCI we put out a wide variety of enrichment items for the chimpanzees: clothing, sheets, drawing material, containers, toys, hoses, mirrors, brushes, and so on. Most days we have some sort of theme to the objects, which helps keep us from using the same objects in the same ways day after day. Other days we incorporate a forage or something else special into the general enrichment items, as well. Here are the themes from January 2008.
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Tatu’s birthday
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Tropical day
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Back to school day
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Horse and dinosaur day
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General enrichment
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General enrichment
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Container day
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General enrichment
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Breakfast day
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Seahawks day
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Condiment (ketchup, mustard, etc.) handprints on the walls
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General enrichment
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General enrichment
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Fairy tale day
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Bird and feather day
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Ant day (with scattered raisins as ants)
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Insect day
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Blue day
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General enrichment
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General enrichment
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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New movies day
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Hanging laminates day
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Mammal day
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Jungle day
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General enrichment
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General enrichment
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Ocean day (with Goldfish ® crackers)
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All enrichment on the top wooden platform in the East Room
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General enrichment
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Press and seal forage day
