Meet Jaya: Baby Orangutan Gets Name at Como Zoo
ST. PAUL — Jaya is the new name of a baby orangutan at Como Zoo in St. Paul. Jaya is an Indonesian name meaning celebration and victorious.
The name Jaya was selected over Bejo and Pandu. Since January, guests were able to vote for the orangutans name with a donation to the zoo. All the donations from the voting process will go toward Como’s orangutan training program.
Jaya, a male Sumatran orangutan, was born via cesarean section in December, The c-section was a medical first for the zoo, merging the skills of Como Zoo’s zookeepers and veterinarians from University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, along with medical staff from University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview including two OB-GYN physicians.
There have only been 9 c-section births in over 1,600 orangutan births documented in zoos, including this one.
Jaya’s parents are Markisa, a 20-year-old female orangutan, and Jambu Aye, a 22 year-old-male. Jaya is the 14th orangutan born at Como since exhibiting orangutans in 1959.
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