Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

By Chelsea Whyte

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AYUMU the chimpanzee sits within the aid of a tumbler wall taking a memory take a look at. He sees a series of numbers randomly residing out on a touchscreen, memorises them and, when they go, taps out a sample to repeat where they were. For a true resolution, he’s given a shrimp reward of food.

The ape featured in a 2012 documentary, Immense Graceful Animals, and the compare he used to be pondering about at Kyoto University in Japan revealed that young chimpanzees win a higher working memory for numbers …