Orangutan “getting on boats” to leave Borneo is a hilarious image. Like Douglas Adams without the literacy.
This individual would make a good scientist. They are curious, require evidence to challenge claims, will investigate the evidence, and struggles to make sense of it. If they were taught how to perform their investigation, what being thorough means, and how to test their wild guesses.
This poor person could have made breakthroughs in anthropology or archeology in another life.