Parrot humiliates Harvard students by beating them in a memory test
Harvard researchers compared the memory of human adults and 6-to-8-year-old children with that of the grey African parrot – an animal separated from humans by over 300 million years of evolution. Continue reading on Daily Mail
A parrot called Griffin has humiliated students at Harvard University, as well as local children, by beating them in a memory test.
Harvard researchers compared human memory skills with those of the African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) – an animal separated from humans by more than 300 million years of evolution.
They compared how 21 Harvard undergraduates and 21 six-to-eight-year-old children performed against the 22-year-old bird Griffin in several rounds of a classic shell game.
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Read MoreGriffin’s accuracy was comparable to, and in some rounds slightly better than, human adults over 12 out of 14 different rounds of varying difficulty.
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