p dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″a href=”http://www.primarilyprimates.org/” style=”text-decoration: none;”span style=”font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”img alt=”” src=”/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/chimp_deeter.jpg” style=”width: 700px; float: right; height: 394px;” //span/a/span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”spana href=”http://www.primarilyprimates.org/” style=”text-decoration: none;”span style=”font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”Primarily Primates/span/aspan style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;” is a non-profit sanctuary /span/span/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;”partnered with Friends of Animals that operates to house, protect, and rehabilitate various non-native animals. The private refuge currently houses several hundred nonhuman animals, and, as the name implies, focuses /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;”primarily on /spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;”caring for apes and monkeys. Many are cast-offs from the pet trade and biomedical research institutions who have suffered greatly for most of their lives, but now have a safe place to call home. /span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″span style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”One of the unique aspects of Primarily Primates are the enrichment activities that staff members and volunteers organize for the animals. Activities include festive culinary events, playtime with plush toys, gift wrapped boxes filled with treats, and much more. /span/span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″span style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”This picture of Deeter, a thirteen year old chimpanzee, perfectly exemplifies the positive effects Primarily Primatersquo;s enrichment programs have on the lives of the animals who re/span/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;”side here/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;”. /span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″span style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”This particular afternoon, Carestaff Supervisor, Joseph Leija, had presented a wheel-barrel that had been filled with a variety of donated produce/span/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;” from Costco. Deeter sat with Joseph and pointed out the produce that he desired and happily walked off with boxes of strawberries and tomatoes. /span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″span style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”Brooke Chavez, Enrichment coordinator, explains that, ldquo;… unlike their previous lives that were spent in laboratory research and confinement, chimpanzees like Deeter are given the freedom to choose at Primarily Primatesrdquo;. /span/span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”span style=”font-size: 14px;”span id=”docs-internal-guid-4f0a9ca5-17df-94ef-cd66-67db46c8dfc1″span style=”font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;”Chavez also stresses that animals innbsp;/span/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt;”sanctuaries need change in their lives, much as we desire different food and changes in our own routines. It is with this in mind that enrichment events are organized and because of this there is s/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;”omething new for the animals here to look forw/spanspan style=”background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;”ard to every day./span/span/pp dir=”ltr” style=”line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;”nbsp;/p