Why do people still think that Primates are Stupid Creatures?

Orangutan caught a rope

thrown by humans and swam across flooded river to save her baby

The rangers came up with the 'impossible idea' of throwing the mother a rope to cling on to so she could swim to the nearest river bank, said an official.Anything was worth a try.So a rope was tossed to the mother - and unbelievably she reached out and grabbed it.Then in a scene that no-one could have ever imagined, she climbed down the tree, with the baby on her back, and slipped into the water.Clinging to the rope, and ensuring the baby's head was above the water, she dog-paddled towards the river bank and scrambled up.'We were able to give her some food, bananas and other fruit, before she and the baby disappeared into the jungle,' said an official.'It's always been thought that orang-utans hate water but we now know that if they're desperate, especially if they have a baby whose life depends on them, they'll take any kind of risk.'