Monkeys can now count!
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A research team led by Kerry Jordan of Utah State University, Logan, US has shown that two Rhesus macaques can learn to count. The monkeys where trained to count the number of beebs they could here and touch an image on screen with the same number of dots. The monkeys scored 66% and 72% in the test respectivley, showing that although they make errors they can conceptualise numbers as abstract concepts.
The monkeys albeit primitive mathematical skills show that another trait once thought only humans where capable and further blurs the line of what makes us human. It is not only monkeys that have been shown to have rudimentary number skills, parrots and flycatchers have also been shown to have the most basic of number based skills.
The monkeys albeit primitive mathematical skills show that another trait once thought only humans where capable and further blurs the line of what makes us human. It is not only monkeys that have been shown to have rudimentary number skills, parrots and flycatchers have also been shown to have the most basic of number based skills.
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