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The Brains Of The Animal Kingdom 动物到底有多聪明？ Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task. Consider Ayumu, a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University who, in a 2007 study, put human memory to shame. Trained on a touch screen, Ayumu could recall a random series of nine numbers, from 1 to 9, and tap them in the right order, even though the numbers had been displayed for just a fraction of a second and then replaced with white squares. 人猿相比，谁更聪明？这个问题取决于比较的是什么方面。比如说在日本京都大学(Kyoto University)2007年的一项研究中，一只名为“步”(Ayumu)的雄性小黑猩猩的记忆力就让人类自愧不如。步通过一块触摸屏接受训练，它能够记得由一到九任意组合而成的一组共九个数字，并能以正确的顺