JimmyT88
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- Birthday 01/08/1988
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JimmyT88 reacted to a post in a topic: My Social Contract Debate
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Animal Cognition: Chimps remembering symbols
JimmyT88 replied to softwareNerd's topic in Biosciences
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/chimp-beats-british-memory-champ_10014836.html I saw the episode of Extraordinary Animals written about in the link above. From my memory of the program, the researchers said that they had allowed a number of chimpanzees to practice the memory test but none of the others were as good as the one shown in the video provided by the topic starter. However, while not as good as the chimp in the video, they still performed much better than the British memory champion. Unfortunately I could not find any more details than the short article linked above. In addition, they said (on the Extraordinary animals episode) that one of the chimps, I beleive it was the one in the video, had also started to teach in infant chimp to play the memory game without assistance of researchers. Apparently he is also getting quote good. -
The first four options all require that I have proof/evidence from personal experience. That not being the case, I had to vote no.