Chimps beat humans in memory test (restatement summary)

It was thought, that chimps can't match humans irn any mental skills.

It was made a test with three pairs of chimpanzees mother and baby against university students. Chimps were taught to count from one to nine. During the experiment on the monitor were shown numbers then they were hidden with squares. The test subject should remember right numbers place. Results showed that young chimps were fastiest.

After this experiment researchers started to think that young chimps have a photographic memory.