Baboons remember quantities | Science News
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Channel: Science News · 2015 · Science & Technology
In a new study, researchers found that counting-like logic helps baboons track and compare accumulating sets of peanuts. From behind a barrier, a baboon named Pearl situates herself in front of a container into which an experimenter drops peanuts one at a time. Next, the experimenter places peanuts one at a time into a second container. Pearl moves in front of it when she decides that it holds about as many peanuts as the first container does. Pearl then gets to eat peanuts from the second container. Read more: http://ow.ly/N0VE4 Credit: Allison Barnard
