An Age of Magic

Hows your memory?

Most of us have trouble remembering what we had for dinner last night and yet the human brain is supposed to be the most wondrous and complex organ in creation. So, how do you feel now that it has been revealed in studies that chimpanzees have an even more remarkable ability than our own for photographic memory?. Makes you want to reach for a banana eh?.

But it has all been proven. Scientists designed a number of experiments and were astonished to find that apes had a high capacity for remembering patterns, shapes and numbers. When put to the test against their human cousins the chimps completed the tests in record time; much faster than the humans and with even greater accuracy.

The chimps were pitted against adult humans, males and female, and in most cases came out on top. The next stage of this study is for the scientists to compare the chimps abilities with those of human children. Now THAT should be interesting and I would like to know the outcome of those tests. 

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