Little MARIA is Mirinda's youngest offspring. She's one of 3 infants born at Bulindi in April last year. Now aged 16 months, she's starting to become ever-more curious about the world around her. Maria is named after our colleague and researcher Marie Cibot.
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Mirinda is about as nice a chimpanzee as you could hope to meet. She's in her mid-twenties and solidly built, but she isn't high-ranking. She's very social and good-natured, and popular with the other chimps and human observers alike. She's the queen of grooming, always happy to groom other chimps even if they don't always groom her in return.
A mother of four (Jemima, Gerald, Merrick and Maria), and grandmother of one (Kasatu), Mirinda has passed on her even, friendly temperament to all of her offspring. Her close-knit family form a calm and stable core of Bulindi society. Mirinda is easily recognised by her round brown face and floppy right ear. JOYCE is the oldest chimp at Bulindi; she's probably in her mid-forties. Joyce's last known offspring is her ten-year old daughter Jenny, though she continued to cycle regularly until as recently as last year, apparently without becoming pregnant. Joyce is an Olympic napper and can usually be spotted resting quietly in a day nest.
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