Ayumu (chimpanzee)

Ayumu (Born in 2000) is a chimpanzee currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. He is the son of chimpanzee Ai, and has been a participant since infanthood in the Ai Project, an ongoing research effort aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition. As part of the Ai Project, Ayumu participated in a series of short-term memory tasks on a touch-sensitive computer screen. His performance in the tasks was superior to that of comparably trained university students, leading to a conclusion that young chimpanzees have better eidetic memory than human adults. [ [http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/12/03/chimp.memory.ap/index.html 5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game - CNN.com ] ]

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