Chimpanzee Licking The Glass

This young chimpanzee wanted to have some fun with me. Perhaps it had been filmed in connection with the advertisements for PG Tips tea, for which the Twycross chimps are famous.
Recent research at the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan shows that chimpanzees can remember sequences of numbers better than humans when the numbers are only shown for a fraction of a second. It seems to me that when chimpanzees race through the trees chasing monkeys they must plan a route, hold by hold, in the branches and that would involve remembering sequences of shapes. Numbers are a little like sections of branches or twigs, sometimes with leaves. So a chimpanzees brain would be wired more efffectively for that kind of processing.

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