Genius female chimpanzee found to be smarter than U.S. high school students

[Renegade]

A funny take on a story about an ape with higher than average intelligence:

http://www.naturalnews.com/036980_genius_chimpanzee_intelligence.html

A twenties-something "genius ape" named Natasha has been found to demonstrate more intelligence than a typical U.S. high school student. The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed science journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

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According to these scientists, Natasha has demonstrated the following skills; all of which escape the dumbed-down mental capacity of a typical U.S. high school student:

• An ability to repeatedly escape the chimpanzee enclosure using planning skills.

• An ability to disable an electric fence by throwing branches on it and observing the sparks. Once the sparks stopped, Natasha knew the fence was disabled and then proceeded to climb it. (A typical U.S. high school student cannot figure out how to pull his pants up around his waist.)

• The ability to wield a special tool to avoid a trap while locating hidden food. (U.S. high school students eat toxic food chemicals every day which trap them in a lifetime of chronic disease.)

etc. etc.

The original story is here:

http://news.discovery.com/animals/ape-genius-chimpanzee-intelligence-120826.html

[TaoPhoenix]

It's cute, but it's pretty far on the Clickbait scale.

[Deozaan]

I once took an online physics test. It said that I scored worse than a monkey. So I've known for years that I'm dumber than a monkey.