Rhesus monkeys performed nearly as well as college students at quick mental addition, researchers reported Monday, adding to the evidence that non-verbal math skills are not unique to humans.

Monkeys can perform mental addition in a manner remarkably similar to college students, a new study shows. The researchers stressed that monkeys will not pass college math tests anytime soon ...

The monkeys could do math with different symbols, as well In order to show that this wasn’t the case, the researchers then taught the monkeys an entirely new set of symbols representing 0 ...

University of Rochester. (2013, May 3). Monkey math: Baboons show brain's ability to understand numbers. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 05 ...

Monkeys aren’t merely capable of counting or remembering numerical sequences: they can add numbers in their heads. And not only can they add, but they do it almost as well as college students.

For typical city folk, there may be no creature more pedestrian than the pigeon, that ubiquitous gray denizen of the sidewalks. But the bird’s reputation got a boost this month when ...

They used both a single monkey and the current global population of about 200,000 chimpanzees, and calculated a productive typing rate of one key per second until the universe ceases to exist.

Mathematicians have spoken: Monkeys will never be able to write Shakespeare. The universe will end long before the monkey can type ‘all but the most trivial of phrases’, mathematicians say of ...