Monday, December 3, 2007

'Extraordinary memory' of chimps
By Helen Briggs Science reporter, BBC News

Counting test
Number memory test
Chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests.
Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists.
The research, published in Current Biology, suggests we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives.
Until now, it had always been assumed that chimps could not match humans in memory and other mental skills.
I think that this is cool because now we can learn that if chimps have this amount of memory. Then they can do certain jobs and we can grow on this and technology will grow for animals in some way. And I like monkeys and chimp because there that cool.

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