They have been filmed using bars of soap they found washing in rivers, and other mimic actions.
weird fact: they smell interesting.
Their skin has a certain interesting scent if you smell a newly washed clean orangutan arm right against your nose and breathe in. My sample size only includes one orangutan though. This person was talking out their ass and only mentioning unwashed wild great apes :
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They have been filmed using bars of soap they found washing in rivers, and other mimic actions.
weird fact: they smell interesting.
Their skin has a certain interesting scent if you smell a newly washed clean orangutan arm right against your nose and breathe in. My sample size only includes one orangutan though. This person was talking out their ass and only mentioning unwashed wild great apes :
https://www.quora.com/What-does-ape-breath-body-odor-smell-like-That-of-chimpanzees-gorillas-orangutans-and-gibbons-Does-theirs-smell-closer-to-that-of-humans-or-like-that-of-dogs-and-cats?share=1
Research showed great apes can turn their male musk on and off at will :
https://www.livescience.com/46719-gorillas-use-smell-communication.html
my sample size was a female ape though, on forearm.