Lies, Spies, and The Great Ape Escape

Here’s the legendary tale of Fu Manchu, master of deception, world-class escape artist, and party guy. Fu’s also an orangutan. Ann tells Fu’s joyfully mysterious escape stories, and together she and Lisa try to pick the lock on Fu’s mind. No one argues he fashioned an ingenious tool, but to what extent was he deliberately deceiving his captors? Fu Manchu challenges human assumptions about other creatures’ ability to imagine what someone else is thinking.

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