“ While apes can learn sign language and communicate using it, they have never attempted to learn new knowledge by asking humans or other apes. They don't seem to realize that other entities can know things they don't. It's a concept that separates mankind from apes”
This is something you see in reverse with toddlers, they think you know everything they do (or at least that's been my experience with my own kids) so if they saw something cool then they assume that you saw it too. My kids have gone through stages of assuming they now know everyhing, too. Fun.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_cognition#Asking_que...