• Question: a dog can know as much as a 3 year old how many years of human age can a chimp know

    Asked by 2002louispatchett to Lewis on 8 Mar 2014.
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      Lewis Dean answered on 8 Mar 2014:

      It’s really tricky to try to compare different species like that, because they all know different things and are intelligent in different ways. Dogs can be pretty smart at some things, but not at others. The same is true about chimps.

      Chimps are really good at learning from one another and they can do better than humans on some games where they have to remember the order that things flashed up on a screen. However, they don’t tend to help one another in as many ways as humans do and aren’t as good at solving some puzzles with lots of different steps.

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