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The animal kingdom’s mathematicians, with Brian Butterworth

Instant Genius

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The Best Animal Mathematicians?

Monkeys and apes have a similar counting method to us. Crows are just as good as monkeys on tests, but the methods in which they've been trained is a bit different. One chimpanzee could do it better than a japanese graduate student.

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