Yeah, this isn't The Onion, bro, this is a real science news source. I actually might be almost serious:
A Yale study appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that children imitate the actions of adults who have proven to be untrustworthy, even to the point of excluding obvious solutions to problems.
Okay, so Ayumu the chimp may not be smarter, but he's a hell of a lot better at quickly processing changing series of numbers and matching them up to random squares on a computer screen.
“There are still many people, including many biologists, who believe that humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions,” Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University said in a statement. “No one can imagine that chimpanzees—young chimpanzees at the age of five—have a better performance in a memory task than humans. Here we show for the first time that young chimpanzees have an extraordinary working memory capability for numerical recollection—better than that of human adults tested in the same apparatus, following the same procedure.”
