Are you smarter than a chimp?

I don’t think so.  Ayumu is a 7-year-old chimpanzee with an outstanding cognitive performance. Ayumu was shown a couple of numbers on a screen and he then had to click them in numeric order. Take a look at how he does it.  WOW!

Now … you try it

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15 thoughts on “Are you smarter than a chimp?”

  1. Real, and i got 5, stupid me. But i’ve seen this in a documentary, the chimp was actually doing it for food, there’s a reward system. Where’s my reward?

  2. Kinda unfair, don’t you think? The chimp has 10,000 practice runs upon his attempt to beat me. Let’s see him beat me in my attempt to spell everything correctly in this entry.

    Aha!!!

    Not so easy, huh Mr. Chimp. Go back to your cave, you little wimp.

  3. Heh, awesome, 8, but I misclicked one:-p
    though, the monkey seemed to have more numbers. So we’re still lame:)

  4. Animals are a lot smarter than we think, and we are not so bright once we put the guns down.

    Civilization is skin deep, but instinct, now there’s something that goes down deep.

    That critter is closer kin to us than us human feel comfortable with, and what we can do that he cannot is only meaningful as long as we’ve got tech support.

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