Ian Rose on Nostr: I don't know how anyone can look at an orangutan, any great ape really, and not see a ...

I don't know how anyone can look at an orangutan, any great ape really, and not see a relative, so close and similar to us that any legal, ethical and moral difference feels like an invented fiction. It's not anthropomorphizing. It's common sense and observed fact. They are much, much more like us than not.

A wild orangutan has been observed using medicinal herbs to treat a wound.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wild-orangutan-uses-herbal-medicine-to-treat-his-wound/