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Lunch and Tour of the Penny & Jock Fortune International Chimpanzee Center at the Indianapolis Zoo

  • June 02, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Indianapolis Zoo

Registration

  • Coffee, hot or iced tea, water. Outside food is not allowed.
  • For attendees who are not zoo members. This ticket covers your admission to the zoo for the day plus lunch of bourbon glazed chicken, grilled skinless or pulled pork on a bun. Corn on the cob, BBA baked beans with smoked pork and molasses. Biscuits with honey butter or plain butter. Sugar cream pie. Coffee, hot or iced tea, water.
  • This ticket covers all day admission to the Zoo and a lunch with Wild Mushroom stuffed ravioli in a light cream sauce served with asparagus. Corn on the cob with butter. Biscuits with honey butter and plain butter. Sugar cream pie. Coffee, hot and iced tea, water.
  • For Zoo members who do not choose to eat lunch. Coffee, hot or iced tea, water.
  • For club members who have a zoo membership that covers zoo admission. Lunch will be a picnic with pulled pork or chicken entree, mixed field greens, shredded carrots, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, ranch and balsamic dressing. Coffee, hot tea, iced tea and water. Corn on the cob with butter. BBQ baked beans with smoked pork and molasses. Biscuits with honey butter or plain butter. Sugar cream pie.
  • Wild mushroom stuffed ravioli in a light cream sauce. Grilled asparagus. Coffee, hot or iced tea, water. Corn on the cob with butter, biscuits with honey butter or plain butter. Sugar cream pie.

Registration is closed

Last August, The Scientech Club heard from Sarah Edwards about how the Indianapolis Zoo built a world-class home for chimpanzees.  Now we have the chance to visit the facility and the residents. The staff of the chimpanzee center will give us a behind-the-scenes look at life for these fellow primates.

Today’s Presentation

Program: Lunch and Tour of the Penny & Jock Fortune International Chimpanzee Center at the Indianapolis Zoo

Speakers: Ed Sandifer and multiple Zoo staff

Attendance: ~55 members and guests

Scribe: Rick Whitener

Editor: Bill Elliott

Scientech Club Tour – Penny Jock Fortune International Chimpanzee Center at the

Indianapolis Zoo - June 2, 2025

Around 55 Scientech Club members and their guests first met for lunch at the Hulman Riverhouse in White River Gardens. We were then met by our host, Ed Sandifer, who is the Zoo’s Planned and Major Gift Officer. He and his colleagues divided us into three groups to tour the three main components of the chimpanzee complex:

The Community Hub

The Engagement Center

The Culture Center

At each stop, staff who work with the chimpanzees each day explained what happens in that area. They answered questions about chimpanzee behavior, intelligence, and social structure. They told us about the precautions that are taken to prevent human disease from infecting chimpanzees and chimpanzee diseases from infecting the humans they see each day. Here are a few pictures of us on tour.



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