Aesop Fable facts
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In 2017 raccoons and chimps were put through the Aesop's Fable test, to see if they could learn to displace water to get food from a container. Many succeeded: the raccoons used their hands to manipulate the container in creative ways, and one chimp simply peed into the container (which worked).
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Disney's 'A Bug's Life' was inspired by the Aesop fable 'The Ant and the Grasshopper' were the Grasshopper (who has spent all summer singing) begs the Ant for food (who has spent all summer storing it) when winter arrives, but he is refused
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Aesop, the writer of Aesop's Fables, was at one point a slave but because of his cleverness he was able to gain his freedom and work his way up to become the advisor to Kings.
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The term "sour grape" originated from an Aesop fable, where a fox is unable to reach grapes that it wishes to eat and justifies his decision by saying that the grapes are likely sour.
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The phrase "Sour Grapes", meaning to pretend to not want something because you can't have it, comes from an Aesop's Fable from over 330 years ago!
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Most people say "the lion's share" to mean the largest portion, but in Aesop's fable the lion takes everything, even though he didn't do all of the work. "You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil."
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'The Frog and Scorpion' is not an Aesop Fable.
