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Even orangutans are playing with fidget spinners now

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Even orangutans are playing with fidget spinners now
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Good news, everybody: the fidget spinner frenzy has officially reached the animal kingdom.

Vienna Zoo's star orangutan Nonja noticed some employees playing with the toy and apparently showed so much interest that they let her take it for a few spins.

After playing with it for a few seconds she was able to master the basics, and looked like a true Fidget Spinner Pro. It doesn't look like she'll be uploading any fidget spinner trick vids to YouTube any time soon, but only time will tell.

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Tyler Schmall

Tyler Schmall is a humor writer based in NYC and a friend of yours. You can follow him on Twitter @tylerschmall where he has been known to post "tweets."


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