gorillas
Explanation
This comic shows a scientist proudly announcing that they have "successfully made these mountain gorillas into hat-wearing elitists, raised from birth amid wealthy people who consider themselves middle class." The gorillas were taught to use "a rudimentary system of icons to indicate that their opinions on industrial design render them morally superior to other gorillas."
The bottom panel reads: "Pro Tip: You can get primatologists to research anything you want, just by insisting that it's exclusive to humans."
The joke satirizes both human exceptionalism and the field of primatology. The core humor is that researchers are so eager to disprove claims of human uniqueness that they will train gorillas to replicate any human behavior -- no matter how trivial or unflattering -- just to prove it is not "exclusive to humans." The specific behaviors described (hat-wearing elitism, using icons to signal moral superiority based on taste) are clearly satirizing hipster or upper-middle-class cultural snobbery.
The comic works on two levels: it mocks the pretensions of a certain type of human cultural behavior by showing how absurd it looks when gorillas do it, and it simultaneously pokes fun at the scientific impulse to find animal analogues for every human trait. The "pro tip" format of the bottom panel adds a layer of cynical practicality, as if this is a known exploit in the academic funding system.