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Chimps Outscore College Students on Memory Test

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the well-when-the-rewards-are-bananas dept.

AP's Malcolm Ritter reports that young chimpanzees were better at remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese college students used as a control group. Scientists plan to repeat the experiment using 5th graders against the great apes.

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  1. Cue the chimp overlord jokes by theskipper · · Score: 0, Redundant

    in 4...3...2...85...

  2. Overmonkey by mqduck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome our new damn dirty ape overlords.

    Posting as AC because even I didn't find this joke funny.

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