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 It’s not easy being a homo sapiens. We have to go to work every day, sitting in front of a bright, glaring screen for eight hours, or do something that will make our feet hurt. When we’re hungry, we can’t just eat – we have to buy our food from a shop, which costs money we’ve earned by working.  The food is wrapped in plastic and shipped from miles away. We have two days a week to relax, which we often spend doing administrative tasks or washing our clothes. It goes on like this until we die, which also costs money when you factor in funerals and debts. Director: Huw Cordey Star: David Attenborough Not so for the orangutan, which, according to David Attenborough’s new Netflix documentary, Secret Lives of Orangutans, is one of our closest living relatives, sharing “nearly 30 physical characteristics with us.” Unlike us, however, their days are largely spent freely eating and grazing (adult male orangutans can eat about 8,000 calories a day, just in fruit and termites), or swin...