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	Chimps 2 - Humans 0 \| Chimp beats human memory champion.

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1-25-2008 1:03 PM

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</P><P>But now an ape has gone one better, trouncing British memory champion Ben Pridmore. 
</P><P>Ayumu, a seven-year-old male brought up in captivity in Japan, did three times as well as Mr Pridmore at a computer game which involved remembering the position of numbers on a screen. 
</P><P>And that's no mean feat  -  the 30-year-old accountant from Derby is capable of memorising the order of a shuffled pack of cards in under 30 seconds</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510260&in_page_id=1770"><P>They then had to touch the squares in order of the numbers they concealed, from lowest to highest. When the numbers were shown for just a fifth of a second  -  the blink of an eye  -  Ayumu got it right almost 90 per cent of the time. 
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