Orangutans Part 1

This week was my first week in with the orangutans. We have 7.
The first is Jay. He is considered retired because he is quite old and has some medical issues with his spine, hips, arthritis... We tend to pamper and spoil him a lot.
In the next exhibit are Bajik and Leela. They are quite young (9 & 10) and Bajik is full of mischief. He was partially hand raised so he likes to have attention especially by female staff members and apparently I lucked out because he seems to like redheads. I've had a lot of fun training with him so that the other keeper can work with Leela without Bajik interrupting.
In the last exhibit is Boomerang aka Boomer and his "family" including Kutai and Yaz, two females, and Kutai and Boomer's daughter Khali. Boomer is a little angsty and Khaki is just leaving the age where she was able to get away with pretty much anything so they tend to be very exciting to work with.
Here are some quick facts I learned about ourangs:
The sexual dimorphism that exists with the males' air sacs and cheek flaps is an adaptation to project their vocalizations and territory calls while living solitarily in the forests.
They can understand spoken language. Many animals can learn cues like our dogs learn sit or walk but orangs can actually follow speech rather than just learning specific cue words.
I'm very excited for another week with them coming up!