Cannot drink water? Bug?

[WoMart]

Just started the game for the first time. My ape died of thirst and hunger despite numerous attempts to quench those.
I think I have a game-breaking bug related to water drinking.

1. I scoop the water
2. I examine it, the black mist disappears
3. The only thing I can do now is to examine it over and over again. Holding A does not result in drinking, nothing happens.
4. If I let go off the water and scoop it again, the black mist is there again and disappears upon examination, but still can't drink.

I'm really confused and tbf angry. Is this game broken or am I dumb? I've seen a video tutorial and the guy just said to hold the reflex button to drink which does nothing for me

[WoMart]

It looks like it was in fact a bug that I managed to fix by restarting the game.
It was my first run and I decided to go without a hud or tutorial,
In the child-ape form I found some ape that I took control over upon interacting with them. I believe that this broke my game.
I restarted the game and instead found some resting as a child-ape, instead of going to the adult ape, and it turned me into an adult ape with a mission to find the missing child. I can drink water now in this state.

I believe that the game allowed me, but did not expect me, to take an alternative path by taking control over some random ape, but left me with interactions available only to the child-ape.