New intellectual testing regimen identifies 'exceptional' chimp
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 07:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—Quite often, those people who take care of animals learn over time which are smarter than others. They don't need to test them, they see it in the way the animals behave. Unfortunately, that's not very scientific, so evolutionary anthropologists Esther Herrmann and Josep Call have devised a number of challenges for three groups of chimps to see if perhaps a measure of intelligence can be determined for a given species. They have published a report of their findings in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, one of which is the discovery that one chimp clearly stood out from the rest.