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There's the old primatology joke: If you give a chimpanzee a screwdriver he'll stick it up his nose; if you give an orangutan a screwdriver he'll disassemble his cage.

http://primatology.net/2008/04/29/orangutan-photographed-using-tool-as-spear-to-fish/
 
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