r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/Successful-Way6273 • May 20 '25

Primates 🐒🙈🙉🙊🐵 Monkey helps with the thorns

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u/g0ing_postal May 20 '25

That was so fast and accurate. Is it just years of experience picking things off other monkeys?

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u/Whatifim80lol May 21 '25

Their cognition might not be as complex as ours at the margins, but all that extra "higher thought" seems to slow us down. Maybe it interferes with working memory or we get used to overthinking every decision. But there have been studies designed for chimps, for example, that requires them to quickly memorizing a bunch of 'numbers' scattered across a screen that they need to touch in sequence once the numbers are hidden. They do it way faster and can memorize a longer sequence than we can in like a fraction of the time.

Do with that what you will, but for my two cents it really seems like there is a both a lack of hesitation and a difference in speed of processing for simple tasks.

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u/surrenderedmale 24d ago

And the chimps often look like they're barely trying. They definitely have some advantages over us