A team of scientists have determined that chimpanzees use long-term memory for remembering the size and location of fruit trees and feeding experiences from previous seasons using a memory window that can be from two months to three years ago. The team, led by Karline Janmaat from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recorded the behaviour of five chimpanzee females for continuous periods of four to eight weeks, totalling 275 ...Sunday, 27 October 2013
Long-term Memory Comes to the Aid of Chimps as They Search for Food
A team of scientists have determined that chimpanzees use long-term memory for remembering the size and location of fruit trees and feeding experiences from previous seasons using a memory window that can be from two months to three years ago. The team, led by Karline Janmaat from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recorded the behaviour of five chimpanzee females for continuous periods of four to eight weeks, totalling 275 ...
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