You’ve probably already seen the headlines on this story but I couldn’t pass up a post on it anyway.

Japanese researchers pitted chimps against college students in a memory test and guess what happened. The chimps won!

Researchers taught monkeys to recognize numbers 1 through 9 and then scattered them randomly around a computer touch screen. The chimps had to tap the numbers in order to get a peanut reward.

Now for the competition. Researchers next covered the numbers with a white box and both chimps and college students had to remember where each number was and touch the white boxes in order, from 1 to 9.

This is where the chimps pulled ahead.

But that’s not all. Researchers then removed some of the boxes leaving less than 9 on the screen. The task was still to touch the remaining boxes in order. Yep, chimps won again.

There’s no real message in this post – just a good story.

Check out the video through the link below showing the chimps in action.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OVlJv7ZkvGA