My Monkey Can Kick Your Kid's Ass

First off, I know a chimp isn't a monkey - it's a primate. The things we sacrifice for humor...

Japanese scientists working with young chimpanzees (a phrase that should send the weak-nerved into fits of apoplexy) have challenged the belief that people are "superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions." So for those of you keeping score in the tough-as-nails battle between homo sapiens sapiens and the adolescent chimpanzee, pay attention.

Or better yet, take the test.

Yours tinily came in 4 for 4, and I don't imagine I'm terribly far ahead of the curve, but apparently chimps outperformed us in a similar memory task - doing better than college students at remembering sequences of numbers displayed for brief periods of time. Chimps started out as the underdogs, but as the time period for display shortened, chimps pulled ahead until - at four-tenths of a second - they began outperforming the undergraduates.

To be fair, the undergraduate experience is so filled with intoxicants and sleep deprivation (not to mention slipping out of frathouse bedroom windows at 4am, but I digress...) that the clean and sober chimps probably had the upper hand from the get-go.

5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game [CNN]