Young Chimp Beats College Students

December 3, 2007 By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Young Chimp Beats College Students (AP)

This photo provided by the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, show a chimpanzee named Ayumu as he performs the second stage of a memory test in which he must recall the location on a touch sensitive monitor of numerals that have changed to squares, Dec. 13, 2006, at the Institute in Kyoto. (AP Photo/Primate Research Institute, Kyoto/Tetsuro Matsuzawa)

(AP) -- Never mind that TV show that asks if you're smarter than a fifth-grader. Is your memory better than a young chimp's? Maybe not. Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

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