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Chimp flogs champ in memory test Article from: The Daily Telegraph <div class=\"caption\">Not the same ape ... but here's an obviously cluey chimp playing, er,poker. While wearing a T-shirt. As you do </div>
January 26, 2008 12:00am
WHENscientists found out that chimps had better memories than students,there were unkind comments about the calibre of the human competitionthey 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 timesas well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved rememberingthe position of numbers on a screen.
Andthat's no mean feat - the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capableof memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds.
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Britain'sDaily Mail newspaper revealed both chimp and man watched a computerscreen on which five numbers flashed up at various positions beforebeing obscured by white squares.
They then had to touch thesquares in order of the numbers they concealed, from lowest to highest.When the numbers were shown for just a fifth of a second - the blink ofan eye - Ayumu got it right almost 90 per cent of the time.
His human opponent scored a rather less impressive 33 per cent. Mr Pridmore, who spends his evenings memorising 400-digit numbers, ruefully acknowledged that he had met his match. \"I'll never live it down,\" he admitted. Thetests follow scientific experiments which pitted Ayumu, along withseveral other young chimps, against a group of university students. Ayumu was the clear champion, doing twice as well as the humans.
Itis thought that young chimps are blessed with photographic memories,allowing them to remember patterns and sequences with amazing accuracy.
ProfessorTetsuro Matsuzawa, the Kyoto University researcher behind both sets ofexperiments, said: \"People still believe that humans are superior tochimpanzees in any domain of intelligence. \"That is the prejudice of the people. \"Chimpanzees can be clever in a specific task in comparison to humans.\"
老妈:你给我小心点,花那么多钱送你上大学,搞的现在什么都不会,会那么一丁点东西还跟老娘摆谱,再问你最后一个,你给我好好解释一下,说不出来我再收拾你,你给我翻译一下“I know but I don’t want to tell you.”是什么意思? 我晕倒,拿起枕头往头上爆砸三十几下,用头撞墙四十多下,双手轮番抽自己嘴巴五十多下,用腿踢桌子角六十多下,血肉模糊之时,我问老妈:这下你满意吧。 这不她老人家又来问我了:“儿啊,I’m very annoyance,don`t tuouble me”是什么意思啊~? 我说:“我很烦,别烦我” 老妈:“找打,跟老妈这么说话”(于是被扁)
老妈再问:“look up in the dictionary”是何意啊? 我说:“查字典” “查字典我还问你做甚”(被扁) 老妈又问:you had better ask some body.怎么翻呢? 我说:“你最好问别人” “你是我儿子,我问别人干吗,又找打,我再问你:“use you head,then think it over”,又是什么意思啊! 我说:“动动脑子,再仔细想想” “臭小子,还敢耍我”接着又要动手。 我连忙说:“是世上只有妈妈好的意思” “嗯,这还差不多,一会我给你做好吃的,明天再问你”