I'm dumber than an ape!

[rayelias]

Apparently, so are you.

"I'm the chimpion! Ape trounces the best of the human world in memory competition"

When scientists found out that chimps had better memories than students, there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competition they faced.


But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore.
Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen. And that's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.

Read here for more...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510260&in_page_id=1770

 

[JoeEpcotRocks]

Sure, but does the ape remember his mate's birthday?

 

[kaybracon]

It's only a matter of time...

 

[CapeCodTenor]

It's only a matter of time...

Ahhh, The Planet of the Apes. I loved those movies. And of course, how could you not like Roddy McDowall as Cornelius?

 

[rayelias]

Sure, but does the ape remember his mate's birthday?

If it were not for MS Outlook, I sure can't remember mine! I guess that's ANOTHER feather in the simeons' cap.