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BS: Daily Chimp Webcam

22 Nov 07 - 01:12 PM (#2200044)
Subject: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

The Friends of Washoe organization provides a webcam of some chimps' play areas, both indoor and outdoor. It's not a live film, unfortunately, but you do get to see a refreshed still shot of each area every 30 seconds approximately.

Chimps Webcam


Ook! Ook!

Enjoy!


22 Nov 07 - 01:45 PM (#2200071)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Ernest

So Chongo and his mates finally got their own "big brother"?


22 Nov 07 - 03:12 PM (#2200141)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

It's looking nice and sunny now in the outdoor playroom, but no chimps. They're on lunch break between 12:00 and 1:00.


22 Nov 07 - 04:43 PM (#2200196)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Emma B

They're a bit shy aren't they?

For REAL excitement try this real time web cam


22 Nov 07 - 05:20 PM (#2200227)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Oh, for heaven's sake! ;-)


22 Nov 07 - 07:10 PM (#2200293)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Bring back Crazy Horse!!!

LTS


22 Nov 07 - 10:37 PM (#2200408)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Charley Noble

Emma-

Thanks so much for the link!

I wonder if there is a webcam for watching paint dry as well?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


23 Nov 07 - 12:33 AM (#2200438)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Here you go...

watching-paint-dry.com


23 Nov 07 - 12:35 AM (#2200440)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Or how about...

Watching more paint dry!


23 Nov 07 - 12:21 PM (#2200775)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

I've been watching that playground for ages now... the little buggers aren't coming out are they!!

LTS


23 Nov 07 - 04:46 PM (#2200913)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

I've been watching for 3 days and haven't seen one yet. Something is wrong here.


23 Nov 07 - 04:52 PM (#2200916)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Dang! I see them! There are two chimps in the East Playroom. One is up top in the safety net thing. The other is down on the floor to the left side. They look smaller than I had expected...I guess it's a pretty large room.


23 Nov 07 - 05:23 PM (#2200927)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Well, it turns out that there is a Moose Cam too. Here it is...

Moose Cam!


23 Nov 07 - 05:28 PM (#2200929)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Donuel

it is said 70% of the web is beaver cam.


23 Nov 07 - 09:34 PM (#2201067)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Charley Noble

Little Hawk-

Thanks so much for the links to watching the paint dry. Given the iminent demise of this earth I often find myself singing Lou and Peter Barryman's ditty "Why Am I Painting the Livingroom." Now I've got something to watch as well.

Charley Noble


23 Nov 07 - 11:07 PM (#2201105)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

You're welcome, Charley!

All I can say is, the Crazy Horse Webcam has some serious competition out there.


23 Nov 07 - 11:48 PM (#2201115)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Yikes!

Check this out, from the Loch Ness Webcam:

Nessie???


24 Nov 07 - 01:09 PM (#2201389)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

AWright! I just saw a chimp in the East Playroom. He was there in one frame...but gone in the next one 30 seconds later.


24 Nov 07 - 01:34 PM (#2201408)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: open mike

other ape and primate cams

http://chimps.tulsazoo.org/ChimpCam.htm
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/gorilla/gorilla-cam.htm
http://sandiego.about.com/b/2004/01/24/ape-cam-primate-reality-tv.htm


24 Nov 07 - 03:08 PM (#2201469)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: open mike

one other...
http://www.pacificprimate.org/cam.htm

it seems i recall hearing of a sanctuary
where either KOKO (gorilla) or retired
movie chimps and apes are -- somewhere in
California...

I am not sure if that place is in any of the links
i posted...enjoy the antics of these critters..
i esp. like the pix of the little lemur that clings
to a human finger...so small!


25 Nov 07 - 12:51 PM (#2201854)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Wow! Three very athletic orangutans are putting on a great show right now on the high ropes in San Diego:

http://www.sandiegozoo.org//zoo/ex_absolutely_apes.html


25 Nov 07 - 04:31 PM (#2201965)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Great - now I have two shots of empty ape enclosures...

LTS


25 Nov 07 - 04:53 PM (#2201980)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Finally!!

The San Diego ape cam has come up trumps with some splendid views of siamangs going nutso on the ropes... they do love rolling, don't they!

LTS


26 Nov 07 - 12:19 PM (#2202511)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Just took another look at the San Diego orangutans...they're having a grand time today. Nice acrobatic work!


26 Nov 07 - 12:23 PM (#2202515)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Ah, the orangs are at it today... shame about the shade falling over most of the picture, and shame it's so small and I can't work out how to enlarge it, but they really do love swinging round on those ropes don't they!

Health and Safety would have a field day if they were children!!

LTS


26 Nov 07 - 12:25 PM (#2202516)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Still zip, zilch, nada and nuthin from the chimps.

LTS


26 Nov 07 - 12:30 PM (#2202521)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

I can't figure it with those chimps. What a bunch of dullards! Or maybe they did a breakout, escaped, and are now partying with Chongo in Chicago, and no one has noticed that they're gone.


26 Nov 07 - 01:43 PM (#2202567)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Donuel

Hey have you got a chimp on your shoulder?

When you put the most human looking chimp next to the most chimp looking human that 1 tenth of 1% DNA difference is really apparent.

Didja ever see the show on the chimp they thought may have been fathered by a human?


26 Nov 07 - 03:34 PM (#2202630)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Yeah, he was a pretty odd looking chimp, that one. Creepy looking, in fact.


26 Nov 07 - 04:15 PM (#2202658)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Tweed

Strange practices going on in the Congo:

Oliver, the half human Chimpanzee

Harg, that chimp-cam site is perfectly awful. I've yet to see a single monkey during several visits and suspect you've set up a faux site with a picture of the howler monkey's cage at the St. Louis zoo for a backdrop.

Tsk tsk!! I expect our Miz Rutledge would chastise you severely for this one, except she's probably out whoring about as is her want and hasn't seen it yet. Gird yore loins laddie, she is a viper as well as a high class harlot.

Tweed


26 Nov 07 - 04:55 PM (#2202688)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Gad, Tweed, you DO lust for controversy and ill will, don't you? ;-) I am well aware that Penelope's hatred for you knows no bounds, though I am unaware what the original cause was for her ire. I can only hope that these latest ill-considered remarks of yours escape her attention. I've heard rumours that her marriage has entered a period that can more or less be compared to the situation between the 2 Koreas...a permanent de-militarized zone. I would not be too surprised if she were at least pondering finding solace in the arms of some more suitable partner than the arrogant Winston Wellington-Jones, but I trust she would keep it discreet if she found one. (I note that she has ceased referring to herself as Penelope Rutledge Wellington-Jones!) Then again, perhaps she is simply burying herself in her charitable work assisting homeless animals and other innocent victims of abuse. Twillingsgate has been rather quiet of late. Haven't heard nowt about her niece Veronica either...


26 Nov 07 - 05:14 PM (#2202698)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Tweed

Yaz, I imagine she is about through with the parade of fops she's been doing lately and in need of a good romping and routing.


26 Nov 07 - 06:17 PM (#2202753)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Well if that's an area with 'relatively high traffic', then I'd hate to see the weeds in the 'quiet' areas... they must be getting on for 2ft high in there. High traffic my ass, it's an empty pen and they're really sitting there laughing at the poor saps who log on.

I'm sticking with the orangs, at least I've seen them!

LTS


26 Nov 07 - 09:40 PM (#2202871)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

"an area with 'relatively high traffic'"?   Well, I hope that is not another nasty swipe at Penelope Rutledge, Liz!


27 Nov 07 - 08:28 AM (#2203086)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work

That's what it says on the website LH, I wouldn't dream of swiping at the estimable Ms Rutledge.

Still no simian activity though.

LTS


27 Nov 07 - 08:34 AM (#2203088)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work

At 13.31 Tuesday GMT, it says it's 4.41pm Monday in the chimp's enclosure... I'm not sure that the image is being updated, but it is dark there. If I want to watch apes blundering around in the dark and doing sod all, I just look over the top of my partitions here at work.

Regretably, my work computer will not allow me access to the more active orangs in San Diego.

LTS


27 Nov 07 - 11:38 AM (#2203198)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Someone needs to phone up the Washoe zoo and tell them their camera is stuck. It's still showing the same time and image as it did when I last looked 3 hours ago.

Since then, I've disposed of 80+ pieces of post (don't worry, I was supposed to dispose of them) and travelled home.

LTS


27 Nov 07 - 01:16 PM (#2203261)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

You have to refresh the page, Liz, to get the picture to update. Otherwise it just keeps showing the last time you looked, even if it was 16 hours ago.

I have seen a couple of chimps there once so far....I definitely spotted two little black lumpy figures...but only once. And it's just a still image. Not nearly as good as the San Diego site.


27 Nov 07 - 01:37 PM (#2203273)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Does being on two different computers work to refresh an image?

LTS


27 Nov 07 - 01:40 PM (#2203274)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Camera unstuck, bright sunny day... still no chimps.

I'm begining to doubt their existance.

LTS


27 Nov 07 - 01:48 PM (#2203279)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

They're quite shy.


27 Nov 07 - 04:01 PM (#2203377)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Just checked again. Nary a chimp to be seen.

What a ripoff.


28 Nov 07 - 10:46 AM (#2203887)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Hmmm. Nothing stirring in San Diego. It must be too early in the morning, I guess, although it looks like a nice day shaping up there.


28 Nov 07 - 12:05 PM (#2203947)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Aha! The Orangs are putting on a great show now.

Still no chimps.


29 Nov 07 - 02:52 AM (#2204457)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work

I've given up on the chimps.. it was too much like work here... vast acres of empty space where there should be sentient beings busy with their daily activities.

LTS


29 Nov 07 - 03:14 AM (#2204462)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: catspaw49

Personally, I still think that Crazy Horse has them all beat. Far worse than the paint and cheese. BTW, I thought it would be funny to find a shit cam so I went looking. Most disgusting stuff I have ever found on the net......and if I am grossed out it HAS to be bad!!!

Now here's something that has a lot of action seemingly until you notice they aren't really doing a gawddamn thing!!!

- Naked Mole Cam (USA)

Spaw


29 Nov 07 - 11:38 AM (#2204738)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

For God's sake! What an exercise in futility. It reminds me of the average North American fast food worker or office worker on their job. Round and round and round they go...where they stop nobody knows, let alone cares...

I think I'll just take your word for the shit cams.


29 Nov 07 - 04:48 PM (#2205025)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Liz the Squeak

Wow... some amazing snow fall overnight but still no sodding chimps!

LTS


29 Nov 07 - 04:53 PM (#2205030)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Really? Gosh...I gotta take a look...


29 Nov 07 - 04:55 PM (#2205031)
Subject: RE: BS: Daily Chimp Webcam
From: Little Hawk

Yikes! What a transformation.

The poor little guys are probably in shock and have decided to sleep until the weather improves. Chimps do not like snow.