Ayumu, who was built-in and aloft in Japan's Kyoto University, can bethink the area and adjustment of a set of numbers in almanac time. Sixty milliseconds to be precise.
Of course, it is not "natural" behaviour for a chimp to collaborate with a computer screen, but scientists advance this blazon of assignment could be acceptable for bound apes.
Ayumu the chimp completes a computer bold (c) BBC/Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa Ayumu's almanac stands at 60 milliseconds
"Unfortunately, bound abundant apes generally display behavioural signs of boredom, annoyance and stress," says Fay Clark from the Royal Veterinary College's Centre for Beastly Welfare.
Working with the Zoological Society of London, Ms Clark has afresh appear a analysis of analysis investigating whether challenges that get bound apes cerebration can enhance their well-being.
"If an ape does not accept abundant cerebral claiming in life, this can advance to aberrant behaviours or a abridgement of absorption in the environment," she tells BBC Nature.
"The key is for scientists to advance challenges which are relevant, motivating, and ultimately solvable if they are activity to be acclimated as enrichment."
