Show I Yale a e Scientist cien is Finds ins 1 Chimps im s Smart mar Pupils u s BERKELEY Cal Jan 24 Ft JP- Dr Jo Joseph eph G G. Japanese scientist st who whose e re research earch work for Yale university includes teaching teaching teach ing a class of or bab baby chimpanzees I is one professor who doesn't be bc lieve Have his students are dumb He lie says thc they are arc the brightest crea lures tures Jures of oC the animal anima kingdom barring barrins only man Here on a six si months months' leave c to prepare technical reports on ex research being conducted con con- ducted on a chimpanzee farm near Jacksonville Fla Dr disclosed some of the conclusions b by which h hs ranks the zee next to man in Jn intellect Learn b by Vision Among the conclusions are arc The They seem to io have a means of com to understand each other very well This may be a sign language for tor or there is no eVI dence they can distinguish tones or communicate ideas through sounds although such sensations I as alarm or anger are perhaps convey conveyed ed by sounds They learn almost entirely by vision and have no auditory pow pou ers of imitation although their vocal i equipment nt is L as perfect as that of a human They apparently make no effort to utilize their thir vocal equipment in learn learning ins It takes six months or so to I stand teach a and chimpanzee to understand under utter a single word but hut by signs or gestures the they can bs be b taught quickly to solve lems no other animals except mon mon- keys kes can solve Apes Intelligent That monkeys have been able to do the most dl difficult ic lt problems performed per per- formed by chimpanzees does not I mean mean they hey are as intelligent as the great great ap cps a asserts erts Dr It is only th the among 1 the monkeys that can ean do these problems he said Among Amon the the chimpanzees the rank and file can can cando do the problems although of course coure there is a great range or variation o of mental capacity One chimpanzee will twill learn in a week or ar less what it takes another another an an- other two to months to learn but the tic average e of Intelligence of the ch chimpanzee as a species tops that of any other animal fI 1 |