Chimp Outsmarts Humans

Image courtesy PRI, Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan
Ayumu the chimp probably has a better memory than you do! Ayumu, a chimpanzee at the Primary Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan and three other chimps took the same memory test as college students. Numbers were flashed on a white screen, then turned into white squares. Test-takers then had to touch the squares in the correct order. Ayumu outscored the college students and the other chimps!

Watch a video of Ayumu completing the memory test.

Featured in National Geographic Kids magazine, October 2008
By Heather E. Schwartz

Comments

Anonymous
November 6, 2008, 8:55 pm

Wow! I can’t do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jbrock222
December 31, 2008, 9:18 pm

wow that chimp is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SMART
mshorsy123
January 18, 2009, 9:36 pm

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!I love monkeys there so smart!
sonicguy22
March 18, 2009, 7:15 pm

how does he do that? super memory?
*sonicguy22*
Tigerflame
October 27, 2009, 10:34 pm

I think the college students just had really bad memory.
drake
October 12, 2010, 11:44 am

yeah so smart +cool.
victoria9339
January 14, 2012, 8:50 pm

whoa thats amazing! i think they are smart because they are related to us!
barnowl24601
May 11, 2012, 9:52 pm

thats true victoria9339!
they share 98% of our DNA
and by crikey- thats alot!

if the chimp can outsmart the college students… they can outsmart anyone!!!

Barnowl24601:)