Young chimp beats college students

You know Japan has fully made the transition to a "free state", if they are publishing this kind of news! Good on ya mates! ROFLMAO!!!!

Chimps are awesome. Sign language, better memory, smoking cigarettes. Just awesome.

So when are they going to start running for office over here and give our politicians some real competition?

It would be worth it just for the debates.

I think they should compare the chimp's memory to a 5 year old child. I think lack of sleep and too much alchol take their toll on the college student memory.

I find it interesting that some think that studing a chimps memory is more productive than research for a real cause. Maybe like finding a cure for all cancers or finding a cure for HIV. Anyway, to each his own.

I find it interesting that in a world where CEOs make 50 million plus in salary a year and we spend over a trillion dollars in a decade on a war that people feel they can make distinctions between good research and bad research that probably cost at most a couple of hundred thousand.

Did it ever occur to you that by studying the memory capacity of chimps it becomes easier to identify the biological processes that determine memory in humans (we're related you know)? Such information can be used to fight diseases like alzheimer's.

I'm sure your an intelligent and level headed person, and your comment has merit in the fact that those things you mentioned, along with science in general, is underfunded, but please try to keep some perspective. Its not the chimp scientists spending the money that should be spent on researching HIV.