Young Chimp Beats College Students

December 3rd, 2007 in Biology /
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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