In a fascinating research carried out by Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, young chimps have outperformed humans in a memory test. The test was a Concentration-like game using numerals on a computer screen.
The chimps were first trained to recognize the numerals 1 through 9 in sequence, and the first chimp they trained, an adult female named Ai was found with a memory capability equal to that of adult humans. When young chimps were pitted against humans on this memory test, they had about 80% accuracy while humans had a dismal 40% accuracy.
Take that, humans.
Source: NYTimes
