Disney's The Jungle Book (1967) featured the raucous character of King Louie. An orangutan living in the jungle who wants desperately to know how humans create fire. He sings the iconic song "I ...

In Disney’s the Jungle Book, the orangutan King Louie famously sings how much he wants to be like young human Mowgli. Now it seems the real apes are even more like people than previously thought.

King Louie, too, is a reference – to the orangutan introduced in Disney’s animated take on the story.