Jackie the Orangutan
Orangutan: An arboreal anthropoid ape genus Pongo consisting of two species, Pongo pygmaeus of Borneo and Pongo abelii of Sumatra, having a shaggy reddish-brown coat, very long arms, and no tail.
"Old man of the forest." That's what "orangutan" translates to. And Jackie felt like the term suited him. Though not exactly elderly, he was getting older, and he lived in the forest with his fellow orangutans. And the treetops were the best place for a sedentary animal like him to live, because they protected him from all the crawling nasty things on the ground.
It's true that he had his own culture, too. Jackie's orangutan population was easygoing and laid back, known for welcoming primatologists to study him in the wild. Another was more aggressive. Not all orangutans were alike.
