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
Wow! I can't do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow that chimp is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo SMART :)
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!I love monkeys there so smart!
how does he do that? super memory?
*sonicguy22*
I think the college students just had really bad memory.