Santino, a 31-year-old male chimpanzee at Sweden's Furuvik Zoo, apparently got frustrated and fed up with people pointing, laughing, making "chimp sounds" and generally acting like monkeys outside the chimp enclosure. So, as dominant male in his group, he came up with a plan: Santino collected a nice pile of stones, and one day unloaded his arsenal on the tourists. Fascinating behaviour, this represents the first well-documented example of a non-human animal planning ahead. Unfortunately for poor Santino, his reward for displaying such human behaviour was castration. Makes one wonder who are the beasts in that zoo...
Story at The Guardian here, and another from Scientific American
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