Orangutans are very smart, and a lot like us. There's a video making the rounds at X of one mashing up leaves with antibiotic properties to put on a wound on its face. And the leaves worked; the wound healed. They also use spears to catch fish.
Many years ago, I read a story about orangutans at a reserve in Southeast Asia. They were stealing the knives and forks of tourists, because they wanted to use them... to eat. The reserve authorities were appalled, and made sure the tourists didn't bring that kind of thing in, because forks would artificially "humanize" the apes.
And at the time, I wondered if we have the right to do that. The orangutans seem to want to "improve" themselves. Why should we stop them from doing that? It's like trying to make some "unspoiled" Amazonian tribe of humans stay that way.
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