Piece of Cake
Tetsuro Matsuzawa |
 

Piece of Cake
Three young chimpanzees have soundly defeated nine university students while playing a computer game that tests memory skills, according to a paper in Current Biology. One young chimp named Ayumu scored 76 percent correct in one game; the adult human average for the same game was 36 percent correct.

 
 
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