Species | chimpanzee |
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Sex | male |
Born | April 24, 2000 |
Parent(s) | Ai (chimpanzee) |
Ayumu (born 24 April 2000) [1] is a chimpanzee currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University. He is the son of chimpanzee Ai and has been a participant since infancy in the Ai Project, an ongoing research effort aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition. [2] As part of the Ai Project, Ayumu participated in a series of short-term memory tasks, such as to remember the sequential order of numbers [3] displaying on a touch-sensitive computer screen. [4] His performance in the tasks was superior to that of comparably trained university students, leading to a possible conclusion that young chimpanzees have better working memory than adult humans, [5] although this has been disputed. [6]
Ayumu's game. For those who want to measure their memorization skills against chimpanzees: https://mtriad.github.io/1/