LEE KRAMER'S ROOM: With Views

[janice shell]

You're probably right. I wonder how long they've been using spears. Did they first see a human doing it, or did they figure it out themselves? According to this person, they learned from local fishermen:

A male Orangutan clinging to an overhanging branch imitates the local fishermen to spear a fish with a pole on the Gohang river of Borneo island. They have been documented to be using tools for quite a long time, but this picture is extraordinary. pic.twitter.com/JcN0SQ3OU0

— Susanta Nanda (@susantananda3) July 3, 2019

The same guy says in another tweet: "The locals believe that orangutan (forest man) can speak human language but that he/she doesn’t/ hides because they don’t want to be forced to work."

But maybe they DO work: "Palm oil plantations are increasingly threatening the livelihood of orangutans in areas like Borneo and Sumatra," according to another tweet...

See this, too:

https://www.primatology.net/p/orangutans-healing-wisdom-using-medicinal