Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Baby Chimp Falls Asleep In Pilot's Lap While They Fly To Safety | The Dodo Heroes" video.

@PinkManGuy Chimps are one of the few animals regarded as sapient. People throw around the word sentient as though it means "highly intelligent", they use sentient to describe dolphins and chimps. The truth is that every mammal is sentient, every fish, every bird and every reptile, and most insects are sentient. Everything from starfish upwards are thought to be sentient, sentient just means "aware of it's surroundings". Any creature that interacts with it's surroundings is sentient. Sapient is creatures that are self aware, only a handful of mammals are thought to be sapient, homo sapiens being the dominant sapient species but all of the great apes and most dolphins are thought to be sapient as these mammals have been known to recognise themselves when faced with a mirror. There are those who believe that octopusses are sapient and those that even believe domesticated cats and dogs have become sapient thanks to interaction with humans, but if you put a mirror in front of my cat it will try to kill the "other" cat.
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Looked like a cross between a gorilla and a chimp, the mouth was certainly chimp but those eyes and a thick fur were very gorilla-like. Those two branches of the great ape family must be very close.
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