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Roxy August 2025

Roxy is still as rambunctious as ever! She’s still close friends with Kyrstin, and she has been responding well to caregivers’ efforts to station her during feeding in one spot so that she can’t steal Kyrstin’s food. In the past, these two could often be found sitting together and even sucking each other’s’ thumbs. 

Roxy loves to be in the center of any drama that comes up in her group, but due to her low ranking she often ends up being the scapegoat for other chimps who get in trouble with the group. She and fellow groupmate Rocko have been seen spending a lot of quality time together lately, which is new! In the past, Roxy also spent time cozying up to other male chimps such as Maverick and Kirk. 

Roxy loves playing chase with her friends and swinging from all the firehouse hanging in her enclosures. She usually stays out exploring the habitat for longer than most of the other girls in her group, too. 

Chimp Chatter Featuring Roxy

Boy Meets Girl – Entry #6

October 11, 2020

With our now united group of 6 chimps (Lindsey, Roxy, Kyrstin, Luke, Kirk, and Greg), it was time to bring in the enforcer, Armond. Armond is, well, the bouncer, the tough guy, the one you don’t want to mess with. It was important to get him into the mix and accepted by the small group of females before we add any more.

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Boy Meets Girl – Entry #5

October 9, 2020

None of us were expecting it to happen, including Greg! Greg recently turned 40 years old and has never lived with females. What would an older gentleman like him think of the fairer sex when they came together?

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The 2010s: Our Legacy for Research Chimps

December 23, 2019

As we swing our way into the second Roaring 20s, we look back at the accomplishments made for captive research chimpanzees in the 2010s.

In 2010, the European Union banned testing on great apes, a full five years before the United States would follow suit, making the U.S. the last country in the so-called “developed world” to end testing on chimpanzees.

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Roxy FACTS

Female

Date of Birth

08/21/2010

Arrival Date

11/06/2019

Fun Facts

  • Roxy loves to get the older males to wake up from their naps and play.

Favorite Things

Roxy is a big fan of puzzle toys, such as Kongs that we can hide food inside.

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