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Jun 14, 2006 10:30 pm US/Eastern

What It Takes To Make A Primate Cake

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (CBS4 News) ― Nonja is an endangered Sumatran Orangutan that has been living for years at Miami Metrozoo, but that's not what makes the hairy female unique.

Dozens of school children lined up to see her Wednesday as she celebrated her 54th birthday, making her the oldest living orangutan in the world.

Her name means "girl" in Dutch, as she originally came from the Wassenaar Zoo in Holland in 1983. Nowadays Nonja would be called anything but a girl, after giving birth to five offspring that have in turn produced two other offspring in captivity. Most orangutans in captivity only make it to be 50-years-of-age.

The old but otherwise healthy primate was given a special cake prepared by her keeper, which zoo officials said was made with a mixture of peanut butter, bananas, mangos and other "primate chow".

It seems as if despite her age, Nonja has not learned any manners, as she suspiciously looked at the cake before ripping right into it and making a birthday mess.

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