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...true, the earlier date casts serious doubt on several controversial theories that purport to trace the beginning of the epidemic to the 1950s--specifically to experimental polio vaccines made from chimp tissue and tested in parts of Africa. A more likely scenario: the virus passed from animal to man during hunting and butchering when human and infected chimp blood intermingled...
Math-phobics of the world take heart - if a monkey can do it, anybody can. Researchers at Kyoto University have taught a female chimp named Ai to count and manipulate numbers. In an article published in a forthcoming edition of Nature, researchers report that Ai was usually able to memorize and repeat sequences when flashed with any five numbers between 1 and 9 in random order - putting her at least on par with the average preschooler. Adult humans, in contrast, usually have a difficult time remembering more than seven random numbers (hence the length of phone numbers). Animals have long...
...this doesn't mean a chimp will be behind the register of your local A&P sometime soon. But it does mean we're approaching a greater understanding of the animal mind. The goal of animal cognition research is usually to shine light on how human intelligence differs from animal intelligence, and, beyond that, to gain insight into just exactly what intelligence is. Coming soon to your local zoo: standardized testing for growing monkeys...