When there is now a proven incident in which a wild orangutan used a non-food plant to heal a wound, we need to stop being so precious about early technology. There’s a much richer continuum between our forebears and us, and I wish our cousin species were still around to prove it.
I think the orangutan might be as smart as if not smarter than many people. We're not the only ones with problem-solving skills. And sometimes we aren't even the best.
