Monkeys escape their prison, and then don't know what to do with their freedom

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Proverbs 26:11

...or, as a monkey returns to his cage.

A group of 15 monkeys at Kyoto University's primate research institute in Aichi Prefecture, which are the focus of a string of high-profile scientific studies, escaped from their forest home which is encased by a 17ft high electric fence.

The monkeys made their bid for freedom by using tree branches to fling themselves one by one over the high voltage electric fence located nearly three metres away.

However, despite the intelligence shown in their great escape, the primates appeared unsure as to what to do with their newfound freedom: the monkeys remained by the gates of the research centre and were lured back into captivity by scientists armed with peanuts.

I don't know what it is about this story that captivates me more: the intelligence of the monkeys in figuring out how to escape (clever, those Japanese)--or that they didn't know what to do with their freedom after their great effort to obtain it, and were quickly bribed back into captivity with some cheap treats.

There's a lesson in here somwewhere, and I predict that one of the contributors to Our Daily Bread will come up with the appropriate analogy--perhaps something about how those who escape sin end up returning to it (thus the quote from Proverbs cited above); or how we're quick to exchange something precious for cheap goodies (e.g., Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for some stew in Genesis 25:27-34); or, perhaps, an analogy to the Israelites murmuring against Moses and Aaron after the exodus (Exodus 16:1-3).