Featuring Jaybee
posted in 03 Feb 2011

Birthdate, birthplace, and parents … Unknown but I’m probably about 37 years old

Before Save the Chimps rescued me I was …
living at The Coulston Foundation, a research lab. But before that, I had spent most of my life alone in a 5’x5’x71 cage suspended off the ground like a birdcage at a lab called LEMSIP. I know how to use forks and spoons, and put on clothes, so my caregivers think I might have been someone’s pet when I was very young.

Today I am … living with 22 other chimps on an island in Florida. Save the Chimps named the island after my friend kiley. I’m cool with it. Really.

Favorite food: Tomatoes, green beans, and cucumbers. I always eat my veggies! I also love a fall cool bottle of Gatorade.

Favorite activity: Hanging out at the Saloon. (It’s a huge platform on my island that looks like a Western movie set).

Best friend: Norene, unless she steals my food.

Five words that describe my personality:
Dignified, intelligent, creative, adventurous, thristy.

Motto: “When life hands you gators, make Gatorade”

More information about the families:

Chimps in Space
Chimps in Laboratories
Chimps as Entertainers
Chimps as Pets

http://www.savethechimps.org/meet-the-families