Proverbs: Everything is an intelligence test

On my first day as a documentation contractor at Compaq (Jan. 1999), I said: "Everything is an intelligence test!" Did your college psych class mention an experiment where a monkey, a dog, and a chicken were placed behind a plexiglass barrier (no sides) in front of their food? The monkey thought, "Hey, I can go around this glass and get my banana"--so he did. The dog saw the monkey eating and thought, "Hey, I can go around this glass and get my food"--so he did. The chicken just stood there staring at its food. Moral of the story: Don't be a chicken.