This may be harder than I thought: Changi the baby orangutan tries to gnaw through a chain at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany.
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After unsuccessfully trying to chew through steel, Changi turns to Mom Lea for a comforting kiss at Germany's Krefeld Zoo.
Photo: Roland Weihrauch / AFP/Getty Images
1. I proudly proclaim shared lineage with these wonderful great apes.
Snarky comments aside (and undoubtedly some are tempted), I never cease to be amazed at the commonalities and obvious emotional intelligence of the "lower" primates. I could spend hours watching the chimps and gorillas--and of course the orangutans.