I enjoyed this one because the chimp was very real. He wasn't hyper-intelligent. He wasn't perfectly enlightened. He was like us. His reactions to body language and stuff were very nicely done and for such a short piece, it really shone that the writer had done a good deal of research on the subject and tried to stay as accurate and true to the character as possible. This is what really makes good sci-fi for me. Not just exploring an idea but carefully researching the ideas you're exploring, subtly giving your audience bits of information that will add to their knowledge and improve understanding of the world in the framework of a good story. This chimp is a self-actualized being. The implants may give him a slightly greater intellect, but it is his choice and conscious effort to be more than an animal.
On a more personal level, I think this also struck an interesting chord for me. A couple of years ago, I visited the San Diego zoo with my partner and her family and sat down by the orangutan's habitat to sketch. The oldest of the orangutans there came and sat beside the glass so we were only inches apart and both let me draw her and watched me draw her. It's hard to explain exactly, but there was definitely some communication happening. My understanding was that from the glances I would give her and the drawing I was doing, she definitely understood I was drawing her because she definitely also knew what other orangutans look like. We spent a good half hour sitting like that and I'd periodically show her the drawing which she would look at until I took it away to work some more. The session only ended when a group of noisy children came through and pressed up against the glass. Then she and I both shuffled away. Really a neat experience and very similar to experiences I've had when drawing children.
I'm not sure she was pleased with my drawing, but she was definitely interested by it, and I'm betting anything that in her 30+ years there, I'm not the first person that's sat and drawn or painted pictures of her and that makes me imagine that she is genuinely interested in art, or at least in the limited interaction and communication that we were able to share. It's something different from the people who are just looking at her and snapping photos. Something she can see and experience that's outside her world.