Monkey business

When visiting a temple in Bali, the monkeys were actually the main attraction. Unfortunately, those monkeys also grabbed plastic from the trash bins. I asked a ranger why they didn't put out different bins to prevent this. His answer was both beautiful and worrying: "Unfortunately, there is significant overlap between the smartest monkeys and the stupidest people. We therefore cannot make the bins more complicated."
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