Sometimes, the joy of a holiday gift isn’t in the gift itself but in the thrill of opening it.
Nowhere is that exuberance on clearer display than at Lion Country Safari every December, when the wild animal preserve in Loxahatchee hosts its annual “Christmas with the Chimps” celebration. This year’s event took place Dec. 16.
Lion Country Safari cares for 17 chimpanzees ranging in age from 2 to 54, who each live in one of three social groups spread among the site’s island habitats. Keepers gives the troop bagged and wrapped gifts each December, which stay that way only as long as the monkeys let them…