its not fair humans didnt get candy

you can see that “im better than you” smile

2:45 I love the implication that they went into the wild to literally track down a scientist in his natural habitat.

When they first showed him solving the puzzle in like 3 seconds my jaw literally dropped...

2:49 it's really convenient they found that dude just as they wanted to talk about him, who knows how many trees they might have had to search

"They have evolved" *starts eating wood*

I'm more impressed by the fact that they are able to recognize the numbers 1-9 and see them in the same order as we do

Not only do they seem to know how to recognize numbers in the correct order but being able to memorize them being blank out in literally 0.5 seconds and still get it right is incredible.

Well, maybe Chris is a pothead.

I bet chimps would be awesome at video games...

From the comments here, I learned that humans have the biggest ego in all of the species.

2:11 that smirk He’s like “yeah im smarter then y’all”

3:07 "They have evolved" *shows chimpanzee biting corner of wood*

Notice how the guy has so long to look at the numbers and the chimp gets a millisecond. That's amazing

Give the human a £50 note instead of a peanut and I bet their memory would suddenly improve with each attempt

"We volunteered Chris, the director of the program, to demonstrate this test." You forced Chris into a box with promises of candy and peanuts.

After every round, there should be something on the screen that says "You lost to a Chimpanzee!"

2:12 Sup Bro. you mad?

I would love to see the next stage of this where the chimp knows it has beaten the human by reading a scoreboard and then observing their reaction and behavior after

1:38 chimp was like "this is too basic hooman."

How did they teach them the correct order for the numbers initially?

Quick question: Am I the only one that doesn't memorize the number's location themselves, and instead memorizes a path that connects them all? For me, it's easier to draw a path in my mind (kind of like connect the dots), then all you have to do is remember the shape of the path, and the end at which it starts. All you have to do at that point is follow the line, it's actually pretty simple.

Thumbnail looks like chimps thinking “imma end this mans whole career” haha

2:10 HE'S SMILING AND HE'S SO CUTE

This guy must be so embarrassed

The loss of advances short term memory cognitive abilities in favor of long term memory pattern recognition is an evolutionary leap towards higher intelligence. Short term memory is excellent for split decision survival skills, but in the long run it is humans long term memory cognitive reasoning that increases beyond the survival of here and now. To equate this evolutionary leap to chess it is the difference between being able to plan multiple moves into the future and memorizing the current position of all pieces on the chessboard. In evolutionary survival terms being able to plan moves into the future is far superior.

When I saw the chimp do the test perfectly, I literally laughed so hard my parents looked at me weird.

I'm more intrigued about how the chimp learned the order of 1-9 numbers, how did they manage to teach the chimp that?

Human: Are Chimps more clever than humans? Also Human: *proceeds to create high technology to test a chimp's IQ level*

Seems like the wrong species is being held in captivity

The fact they knew numbers and there order is already impressive.

what's just as impressive as the speed/memory, is that they can learn the numbers and their orders at all. mind blown. what a badass that chimp is

It's amazing how defensive humans get about our species... If you look at the comments, it seems as if lots of people find the concept of non-human intelligence fundamentally repugnant, even if they don't actually know anything about Chimpanzee or Human intelligence to base their opposition on.

"You just can't beat me bro" 2:10

You know it's wrong when they say "we tracked down a scientist"

this is why we should return to monke

2:48 Is nobody going to talk about the transition with the man in the tree?

I’m amazed, see how brilliant these animals are. 🙌🏾

He’s adorable.. 🥺 omg this is amazing they are so smart!!

Ayumu has a great technique, such a wonderful and smart dude

Chimps better memory ---> more intelligence ---> getting smarter than humans ---> humans devolving ---> chimps ruling the world ---> Planet of the apes (Totally not from a movie)

Damn, Japans got even the smartest Monkees

I was not expecting that chimp to solve it so quickly. Amazing.

1:58 Chris fears he's let his species down lmao

"Ayumu gets it right almost everytime, and I only got it right once." I hear the same thing from my friends, minus the name of course. Don't worry Chris, your case isn't as worse.

Wow, impressive! At 1:35 the chimp looks like a true slot machine addict, very human indeed

Everyone is a gangsta until the chimps starts giving SATs

I'm blown up by this little fellow intelligence.

Chimps have an amazing short term memory, humans have an amazing long term memory. Simple as that.

Excellent presentation and documentary !!! There is so much humans can learn from the animals if they would only take the time and interest in learning more about them. :)

Amazing video.Good info

"They have evolved" 2000 years later - Aren't these humans in cage are wonderful, darling?

Why get all defensive about how smart humans are? I think it's amazing how intelligent some animals are. Sure a monkey may be better at remembering, but I'd like to see a monkey play a song from Veil of Maya on the guitar, or cure cancer. Then I would probably put my own intelligence below a monkeys.

2:11 Look at that smug smile and that condensation in its eyes.

Have done this test a few times over 2 days. My score is usually around 9, though not 90% of the time.

It takes him about 1 second to memorize it. Amazing!!

I like how he's sitting all smug at 2:12 :)

Interesting... I wonder what factors pushed them to evolve a good short term memory, I wonder if they also have the ingenuity to match us humans.

2:11 that's so cuuute

I wonder if this memory test has ever been released as some form of video game, where you use a cursor to click on the invisible numbers. I would expect it to have been released as an arcade game, or maybe as an early title for the Nintendo Entertainment System (that console had a lot of simple board games and other similar types of challenges during its first years).

Amazing, beautiful creatures

3:05 That's the worst case of hemorrhoids I've ever seen!

This is the most amazingly designed animal behaviour experiment ever. After several years I am still amazed !!

An explanation would be that humans have more thoughts that distract them.

i lolled at chris' bad memory

the fact that he remembers it quickly shows excellent memory

wait so does this mean chimps know numbers?

It definitely makes sense. They have to have awareness of where their food sources are at and when they're ready to be eaten and they have to memorize their social order and know which one they owe favors to and so on. I would say parrots probably have the same type of memorization skills.

They're so smart. Many animals are much smarter than we think. Perhaps even smarter than us in a certain sense.

This is just amazing to me. If working memory is so strongly correlated with IQ, what does this say about the IQ of chimps vs ours? I can only assume that their brain size in that area is abnormally large in comparison to ours, like perhaps what they gain in that area they strongly lack in others - just a different brain assembly, neither necessarily being superior (depends on how you measure it I suppose).

1:47 he doesn't even need to look at the screen to press the numbers in order

2:49 I always laugh at this idk why 😭

I remember seeing this on telly a couple of years ago and thought it was nice to see non-humans getting some credit for something - especially where it strayed into the area of brain-power where humans like to think they have no rivals.

this is visual working memory. Humans are good at verbal working memory, which apes probably suck at cuz they didn't evolve to communicate at our level. It makes a ton of sense that they'd be better than us at this test (as long as they learn the order of the numbers) considering their environment demands excellent spatial awareness to keep track of branches and stuff.

draw a mental line that connects the numbers in ascending order

That's mindblowing!! Not just the test, but also that the chimp can memorize the symbols of those numbers and the order they should follow - that itself takes humans a LOT of time to do. And notice that the chimp looks at the numbers and INSTANTLY moves to the test, and passes it. 99% of humans could never do that and the 1% are gifted or have very high IQs.

INSTEAD OF STORMING AREA 51 IMMA STORM THIS PLACE AND GET MYSELF A CHIMP

Reject humanity return to monke

That's incredible.

Even more impressive is how fast they memorize it

I love how after the first time the chimp did it he had his hand to his side like "Really, this is what we're doing, is this supposed to be a challenge"

i remember that i was watching this almost a decade ago on tv lol

This make me happy when I watch it as humans and chimpanzees share same common ancestor.

The last line, " That's Chimps 1, Humans Nil" Made me laugh like hell 😂😂😂

It's amazing that 1.) The chimp was able to learn the numbers 1-9 and their order in the first place and 2.) That the chimp can do this test almost instantaneously. I think a fair number of people with a reasonable memory can get it right 90% of the time as the chimp does but for me at least, it would take at least 10 seconds to feel confident enough to pass it at that rate. The chimp literally sees the numbers and starts pressing them immediately. I almost want to consider the possibility that the numbers are still visible to the chimp after he presses 1. Something similar like if you stare at an image for a long time then close your eyes, you still see the negative image. Meaning the chimp's eyes actually work a little differently and they still see the numbers after they flash off. Just complete speculation on my part and it's probably wrong but it's really astounding how quickly the chimp presses those numbers

How does the chimp see the entire screen of numbers and process their order at once? Definitely the human is looking at them one at a time, yet the chimp must be looking at them all at once, like an entire field of view, in order for him to take literally one second to remember their order. They didn’t mention that?!

I’m even impressed that the chimp knows the order of regular numbers, let alone memorising the squares

This is doable for most of us chris is a good actor

"We better take these motherfuckers out"-Brendan Schaub

2:58 Johan Cruyff is still alive!

Remarkable this probably explains the origin of our reading (pictographic memory) and hearing (sonograhic memory) ability

bro's determined to make fun of that poor dude

Doing this test myself, I find it easiest not to memorize numbers separately, but the shapes of the numbers. That way it's much quicker to picture everything at once in your head and you can process the next number/shape as you go. Margin of error is low because each number/shape has very little in common with the others, except for 2 & 5 (for me). Furthermore I try to picture & internalize the right order with a straight line leading to each shape. That pattern in my head makes it also easier to identify the right path should I lose track. It's a very practical, but simple way of memorizing an order and I imagine chimps work similarly. Basically they don't think too much about it?

When Humans build a test that proves their less competent than chimps

Jeez the sound guy put a banger on this

Now this is the proof that we are not as superior to animals as we thought

For those who are wondering, Chimps have incredible photographic memory so that they can maneuver in jungles without getting lost.

Uhhh... Brain Age (DS) has that same exercise, it's just much harder on Brain Age due to the number's being shown on a brief timer, and I don't have trouble with it at all..... as I assume plenty of people wouldn't. Unless they meant for that guy to be slow to exaggerate the chimp's ability (which is really impressive no matter), BBC Earth's brightest is quite dim...

Fascinating!

fascinating stuff