Mary Lee Jensvold, Ph.D.
Quality of Life Assessment, a Good News Story, and a Virtual Conference
Quality of life (QofL) assessment provides an objective measure of well-being in humans and veterinary medicine. QofL…
Questions of Cross-Fostering on Maya's Birthday
This month we celebrate Maya’s 43rd birthday. Maya was raised like a human child for the first years of her life in a…
Animal Sanctuary Caregiver Day: Pant hoots, Onions, and Two Letters
Today is Animal Sanctuary Caregiver Day, a collaborative effort by the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance…
Loulis Celebrates his Birthday
By Dr. Mary Lee Jensvold Today while visiting with Tatu I shared with her that Loulis’ birthday is coming up. She…
Resilience
Some of the first biomedical chimpanzees that I met were at LEMSIP in 1993. Then I met the chimpanzees at Fauna just…
Commentary in Animal Sentience
Can a nonhuman commit suicide? This question is addressed in a target article in the journal Animal Sentience with…
Chimpanzees Signs at Fauna Foundation
Tatu and Loulis lived at the Chimpanzee & Human Communication Institute in Ellensburg Washington from 1980 until…
An Ethos of Compassionate Care for Chimpanzees
Sanctuary life is an institutional life, no matter how you slice it. Residents are robbed of an independent…
Back to School Daze: The Reality of Captivity
This week I moved my daughter to Reed college and into a dormitory, leaving the home she has known for her lifetime.…
Pretend Play in Chimpanzees
Recently, the BBC aired a wonderful video about play with stones in wild chimpanzees which we know as pretend play.…