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To: KyrosL who wrote (26015)	12/4/2007 4:05:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 220366

Hey, I've got nothing against chimps. Heck, some of my best friends are chimps. It's not their fault that they lack intelligence, mess up their cages and fight and kill all and sundry. But even though I think they should be treated as human, the experiment purportedly showing they have good short term memory was bung. As they say, they should compare human brains at a similar stage of development. But part of the test was not really a thinking/memory test so much as a visual recording rate test. They gave them a very brief time to view the data. I did some speed of visual perception tests a couple of decades ago in my BP Oil days. It was part of speed-reading training. They got the class to watch a screen on which was displayed various things for shorter and shorter times. There was a wide variation in recognition by the participants. I could see the image to a fiftieth of a second, but lots of people couldn't see anything at all, let alone recognize it, at much slower speeds. Chimps for survival have to be very quick at recognizing things because they live in a fast-paced survival of the fittest realm. Humans, so my theory goes, don't have such a need for high speed visual recognition, though some of us, who presumably have excellent chimpoid DNA like me, are super-fast. Watch some other animals to see seriously quick visual perception and reaction times. Check out otters reacting to snakes in a confrontation to see who is going to be dinner. Same with a mongoose and a cobra. The battle is all over before I have started jumping with fright. Otters no doubt lack the minimal intelligence to go along with the tests, but if they did, I bet they'd beat chimps. Mqurice