Did this chimp do a ChiLab Memory course?
In a memory competition on Channel Five, a seven years old male chimp, Ayumu, did three times better that the British memory champion, Ben Pridore., a 30-year-old accountant from Derby. Among his developed memory skills, Pridore is capable of memorizing in under 30 seconds the order of a pack of shuffled cards.
In the game, both participants had to watch a computer screen on which a group of 5 numbers flashed up before being quikcly blanketed by white squares. In just a blink of eye time, they had to touch the squares in order of the numbers from the lowest to the highest .
Ayumu got almost 90% right! His opponent could manage merely 33% correct.
Perhaps it is time for us to stop the sense of superiority being the self-declared smartest species on the earth…