Many of our
frequent guests are probably already familiar with Baka-keri, our adult male
Sumatran orangutan. No, he’s not the
orangutan who gives “kisses”; that’s Tujoh.
Baka is the handsome, dreadlocked guy who was a great dad to Makan and
now Godek. 
We frequently get questions about
Baka’s name because the word “baka” means stupid in Japanese. Baka is one of our smartest orangutans and anything
but stupid. He was named at his birth
zoo, the Calgary Zoo, which follows similar naming rules as Cheyenne Mountain
Zoo. We try to give animals names from
languages native to their country of origin.
Orangutans are native to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in 
Orangutans are highly endangered in
their native rainforests due palm oil production, so right now they are far
from eternal. Click here to see how you can help them
when you visit the grocery store.
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