A few weeks ago chimps beat humans on a memory test. This was big news because we’re an incredibly arrogant species. Anyone who has read anything about chimps would not be terribly surprised.
They’re better at us at certain mental tasks. A lot of animals are better than us at a lot of things.
Let’s just hope that they never develop opposable thumbs. That’s what our advantage boils down to and we better not lose it. I suspect that we’ve pissed the chimps off.
This incident was portrayed as being sort of a surprising fluke. Judge for yourself. Watch the video and test yourself against the chimp.
You will lose.
The chimps did not just beat us. They destroyed us. It was not even close. These things are smart. It’s time to stop experimenting on them. But we should let them smoke if they want. And wear hats. They seem to really like hats.
