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A Chimp Beat College Students. It's Still Not #1.

CHIMP BEAT COLLEGE STUDENTS

A short from AnimalDex, from What Is the Smartest Animal? The 10 Smartest Animals. Every claim in it comes from that page, which has the full detail and sources.

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Published 10 October 2026. AI-narrated, with motion added to some images.

Transcript

  1. 0:00CHIMP BEAT COLLEGE STUDENTS. A young chimp beat university students at a memory test.
  2. 0:04RAVEN: RANK #5. Yet the chimp isn't number one. This bird plans for tomorrow.
  3. 0:0739 CULTURAL BEHAVIOURS. Chimps fish termites with twigs and crack nuts with stone hammers.
  4. 0:1115-GRAM BRAIN. Ravens saved a tool for the next day. Only apes had shown that.
  5. 0:14#1 DOLPHIN. But number one? The dolphin. It recognises itself in a mirror.
  6. 0:20TOOLS vs TALK. Chimps hit back: hands that make tools, traditions passed down for generations.
  7. 0:25SIGNATURE WHISTLES. Dolphins hit back harder. Each one has a whistle that works like a name.
  8. 0:30CHIMP OR DOLPHIN?. Scientists rarely even try to separate them. So who really wins?

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