It is a homemade pair of sediment removal tongs . .So it is an artificial anteater and I win!!
I know some of you will declare that this is not a real thing. . that it's just a bent up piece of wire from a coat hanger.
To you I will say it is a real tool as much as any other tool that had to be fashioned from something. A piece of wire or metal. . or even a rock or a stick. Everything was just something before it was a tool.

Even monkeys know this!