DOCUMENTARY
• It's Wonderful to be Human! •
Chimpanzees Disclose the Secrets of Evolution
DOCUMENTARY
2017
48 minutes Episode(s): 1
english
English
‘Ayumu’, a chimpanzee from the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University who has learned words and numbers, is able to memorize a large set of numbers in an instant and correctly choose them in ascending order. People young and old challenge this test, but no one is as good as Ayumu. What could this wonderful ability be?
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