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Monkey magic! 5-year-old chimp makes apes of college kids in computer game

NEW YORK (AP) -- Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in two tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.

This photo provided by the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, show a chimpanzee named Ayumu as he performs the second stage of a memory test in which he must recall the location on a touch sensitive monitor of numerals that have changed to squares, Dec. 13, 2006, at the Institute in Kyoto. (AP Photo/Primate Research Institute, Kyoto/Tetsuro Matsuzawa)
This photo provided by the Primate Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, show a chimpanzee named Ayumu as he performs the second stage of a memory test in which he must recall the location on a touch sensitive monitor of numerals that have changed to squares, Dec. 13, 2006, at the Institute in Kyoto. (AP Photo/Primate Research Institute, Kyoto/Tetsuro Matsuzawa)