Abang the Orangutan makes a stone tool, a film by Dr Richard Wright, ca 1972

This film of Abang, an Indonesian Orangutang, was made by Dr Richard Wright in the early 1970s to explore the stoneworking capabilities of apes. His work was followed a decade later by the famous experiments with Kanzi, a captive bonobo. Special thanks to Richard for giving us permission to host this historically important video. (Wright, R.V.S., 1978. Imitative learning of a flaked stone technology-the case of an orangutan. In S.L. Washburn and E.R. McCown [eds], Human Evolution: Biosocial Perspectives, pp. 215-236. Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California.)

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But Wright selected and prepared the tools for the orangutan. Now take this orangutan to nature with just the box puzzle and let the orangutan solve it there. I very much doubt that the orangutan will succeed, nor will he apply this tool making skill in any other problem. At best bashing things with stones will be the best scenario.

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