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Baby chimpanzee!!
Aug. 7th, 2005 03:52 pmYesterday evening we went to a special event at the Baltimore Zoo: Prime Time With Primates. It was to introduce the new baby chimpanzee to a select group of the public. She's 10 weeks old, and this was the first time she'd been out where people could see her. Her name is Rozi, pronounced Rosie. The rest of the zoo was closed - this was a special event - so we only saw the primate house, which included a special kind of lemur called a sifaka, and some colubus monkeys who have a rock hyrax living with them. The rock hyrax looks like a guinea pig crossed with a wombat (and sizeways, it's in between them - a little bigger than a breadbox), and in fact its Latin name is procavia, but it's not related to them - it's actually related to the elephant!
Baby chimps don't have any hair on their chest or abdoment, which makes them look all the more human. She was just too cute for words. Several zoo staff gave little talks about raising a baby chimp - her mother had rejected her completely - and about the zoo's primates in general, and we all nibbled on wine and cheese and fruit and veggies and cookies while we listened, and then had a big preview of the show that's going to be on the History Channel tonight, Ape to Man.
We had fun, met people, and will be starting as zoo volunteers once a week with next month's training session.
Tonight we're going to a Navy band concert over in Bel Air. Hey, part of our reason for moving up here was culture and related activities; now that we are enough unpacked and enough familiar with the roads, we're finally starting to do just that. I will be knitting a sock on the way and at the concert. Someone will be the lucky victim this xmas!
Baby chimps don't have any hair on their chest or abdoment, which makes them look all the more human. She was just too cute for words. Several zoo staff gave little talks about raising a baby chimp - her mother had rejected her completely - and about the zoo's primates in general, and we all nibbled on wine and cheese and fruit and veggies and cookies while we listened, and then had a big preview of the show that's going to be on the History Channel tonight, Ape to Man.
We had fun, met people, and will be starting as zoo volunteers once a week with next month's training session.
Tonight we're going to a Navy band concert over in Bel Air. Hey, part of our reason for moving up here was culture and related activities; now that we are enough unpacked and enough familiar with the roads, we're finally starting to do just that. I will be knitting a sock on the way and at the concert. Someone will be the lucky victim this xmas!
