Apes can remember friends they haven't seen for over 25 years, a new study shows. That's longer than a dolphin's memory.
These apes seemed to recognize faces they hadn't seen for many years.
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These apes seemed to recognize faces they hadn't seen for many years.
Our closest animal relatives are capable of remembering former groupmates they haven't seen in years, or even decades, researchers report.
Apes can recognize old friends they haven’t seen for decades, according to new research, and it’s the longest-lasting social memory documented outside humans.
Apes can recognise photographs of their friends 26 years after last seeing them, making them the animals with the longest social memory outside of humans, scientists have found.
The full title of this article by Holly Bynoe (for Global Voices) is “St. Vincent & the Grenadines’ Mayreau island is a cultural bastion where — despite challenges — community spirit is alive and adaptive.” Bynoe writes, “[H]olistic empowerment [...] encompasses issues of people, culture and the natural environment.” This is the first instalment of a…