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Young Female Chimps Outlearn Their BrothersYoung female chimps are faster and better learners than young male chimps, suggests a new study, echoing learning differences seen in human girls and boys.While young male chimps pass their time playing. Young female chimps carefully study their mothers. As a result, they learn how to fish for tasty termite snacks over two years before the boys.Elizabeth Lonsdorf, now at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, US, and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, Saint Paul spent four years watching how young chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania le