Fine Animal Gorilla

Liz Klimas shares images of gorillas who have learned to disable traps set by humans:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pictures-capture-young-gorillas-figuring-out-how-to-destroy-poachers-snares/

It's called learning, not evolving...at least when we're talking about the whole gorilla population. (If we're talking about the skills and coordination of an individual gorilla, we might use "evolved" as a synonym for "developed" for what the ape's skills did through the process of trial and error. This is the kind of colloquial, metaphoric usage through which languages evolve. Picky scientists hate the process of linguistic evolution.)

But I have to commend Lembrandt's comment. If gorillas are smart enough to find, avoid, and dismantle traps, gorillas are about as intelligent as rats, and there's hope that humans, too, may learn to avoid traps such as welfare handouts and feel-good pills. Maybe.

Years ago, researchers who had trained a gorilla to say a range of things using a simple computerized sign language asked her whether she considered herself a person or an animal. The gorilla replied, "Fine animal gorilla."