🎧🌿 If you've followed Dr. Jane Goodall's work closely, you may have had the opportunity to witness her perform a fascinating chimpanzee call — the pant-hoot! For those less familiar, a pant-hoot is a loud, long-winded (2-20 second) vocalization used by chimpanzees to communicate over vast distances. It can help them form social bonds, share the number of individuals at a specific location, or even attract mates! What's truly remarkable is that researchers have discovered that each individual's

World Chimpanzee Day is tomorrow! We made a video to celebrate our closest cousin in the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees utter a lengthy shout branded as the “pant-hoot”. As they pant-hoot, the scream increases in volume, ending with a “hoo”. This call is performed to communicate various things such as excitement, spatial location, to identify and distinguish members as well as many other. Each chimpanzee has their own distinctive pant-hoot which can be identified by others. #worldchimpanzeeday #chi

We know you have always wanted a lesson on how to pant-hoot like a chimpanzee, so here you go! Submit YOUR pant-hoot for the contest that is part of our Virtual HOOT! 2020 Gala. A bunch of details about the event and the link to the contest page here: https://chimpsnw.org/2020/08/pant-hoot-tutorial-for-virtual-hoot-2020/ | Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

In captivity, chimpanzees use vocalizations to express their specific needs/wants to their caregivers. Here are 6 of the top sounds our caregivers have been conditioned to, as well as their special meanings! Blog: https://chimpsnw.org/2025/01/chimp-specific-vocalizations/ | Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest

Sound on for happy Chimpmas Party vocalizations! 🔈Click on this link https://bit.ly/4rQUocw?r=lp&m=Mmbemw3mc4m to support our residents this holiday season🎄🎁🙈 #christmas #chimpanzee #party | Save the Chimps, Inc.

Please share! For each pant-hoot shared to social media tagging @SaveTheChimps, our Board will donate $5 to the chimpanzees in our care. Let's see your pant-hoots! Make sure your posts are public so we can see them. #PantHootChallenge As we finish out our Earth Day Celebration week, we hope you have enjoyed both the peace of the sanctuary, and the many ways we’ve invited you to celebrate with us this week. For our last Earth Day celebration, we wanted to have you join us in a good ole fashioned