Baraka knows more than any camel should know about humans and demonstrates serious class and emotional intelligence. Baraka is son of Barak O’Mama, who died giving birth, and the great Everest. Baraka was bottle raised and lived with humans for the first year of his life, and when it came time to integrate him into the larger camel herd it was a delicate matter that took several years. Eventually his integration process smoothed out, it was interesting to watch how the camels responded to him and taught him the ways of being a true camel.
Now he is well adapted and is especially close friends with Jellybean who showed him an embrace of acceptance from the beginning of his journey adapting to the herd. For a period of time Baraka became very serious and formal about his contact with humans, and we respected his process and boundaries. Now he is coming around and asking for pettings and things he used to enjoy when he was younger, but in a very balanced way. He can also be found having great command with members of the herd when he chooses to use it.
