Trickster is a collection of navigational figures that are fundamentally ambiguous and anomalous. A Trickster is a deceiver and trick-player, shifting shapes, inverting situations and forking attention.
In Borneo, indigenous tribes believe that orang-utans (from “orang hutan” = person of the forest) do actually have the ability to speak, but choose not to in order to avoid being put to work.
http://www.synapse.info/blog/ape-art-and-other-kinds-of-order/.
