Animals Compared to Humans: Chimps outperform humans at memory task

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For the first time, young chimps have outperformed humans at a memory test.

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As humans, we prize our cognitive abilities, but this video puts us to shame. Humans and adolescent chimps were given the same memory test, which involved remembering a sequence of numbers on a computer screen.

The chimps easily outperformed the humans - the first time humans have been bested by chimps at a cognitive test. Although there is little mention of how much training the chimps had beforehand, it shows we are not the masters of all things mental.

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