{"id":25043,"date":"2013-07-19T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=25043"},"modified":"2013-07-19T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T08:43:32","slug":"apes-can-remember-events-from-years-ago-just-like-humans-do-new-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=25043","title":{"rendered":"Apes can remember events from years ago just like humans do, new research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chimps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25028\" alt=\"chimps\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chimps.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chimps.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chimps-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chimps-483x300.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The great apes can remember events that happened years ago just like men and women do, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>As with humans, a reminder of something in the distant past can jog the memories of chimps and orangutans.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists took a group of apes and reconstructed a series of experiments conducted three years previously in which they had had to find hidden tools that could be used to reach food.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the same set-up of rooms and boxes in which the tools were concealed, the apes immediately knew what to do. It took them only five seconds to find the tools.<\/p>\n<p>Another group of apes which had not had the previous experience were left confused.<\/p>\n<p>A second study showed chimps and orangutans could remember a single tool-finding task carried out two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The complexity and speed of the apes\u2019 recall ability was unexpected, said the scientists, whose findings appear in the journal Current Biology.<\/p>\n<p>Study leader Dr Gema Martin-Ordas, from Aarhus University in Denmark, said: \u2018I was surprised to find out not only that they remembered the event that took place three years ago, but also that they did it so fast.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Martin-Ordas added: \u2018Our data and other evidence challenge the idea of non-human animals being stuck in time.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great apes can remember events that happened years ago just like men and women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}