Boy Meets Girl – Entry #4

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Luke hasn’t had enough of the females yet – he wanted a lot more! As the chimps learn what we are up to with the intros, some volunteer to participate and others skedaddle out of the area, content to be last if possible. Luke very firmly insisted that he was going to be at the head of the pack. Our alpha, Captain Kirk, decided to join him.

On the female side, Lindsey, Roxy and Kyrstin all volunteered.  A three on two advantage but one that usually provides balance in chimps.

After a bit of back and forth we let the boys meet the girls in the space where fingers could poke through.  Lindsey and Kirk were particularly interested in each other, but Luke wasn’t going to let them have any alone time. He posted himself in the middle of the room as close to the girls as possible and simply refused to let Kirk have a session all to himself.

Well, we listened to Luke.

This is the moment that takes you breath away. Or the moment you realize you’ve been holding your breath. We opened the doors between them.

There was some chasing. There was screaming. There was some posturing between Kirk and Lindsey but after a short time it all started to settle down. Luke and Kirk showed Lindsey that they weren’t going to hurt the young girls and just wanted to play. Lindsey relaxed enough to even play too! 

Luke has seemed to bring out the mediator in Roxy. Luke will start to display toward Lindsey and Roxy comes barreling in, spinning around, and lands some hearty blows on Luke’s midsection. This stops him in his tracks and gets him playing with her instead.  

Grooming, playing and napping fun for all five chimps filled the rest of the afternoon – with a bit of chaos sprinkled in thanks to sassy Kyrstin. I don’t think we can separate them back to their original groups now, so tonight, we have one group of five with seven more females and seven more males to layer into the mix. Soon. Maybe even tomorrow.