Well the headline is cheeky, but highlights the similarity between humans and other primates.<\/p>\n
Findings, published in Current Biology<\/a>, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Research suggests chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists; the tasks involved remembering the location of numbers on a screen, and correctly recalling the sequence.<\/p>\n See this page on BBC for more links and demonstration videos<\/a> of the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well the headline is cheeky, but highlights the similarity between humans and other primates. Findings, published in Current Biology, suggest we may have under-estimated the intelligence of our closest living relatives. Research suggests chimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by …
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