Ayumu is amazing. Numbers 1-9 flash across a screen for 210 milliseconds, less time than it takes the human eye to scan across the screen, before turning into white squares. Ayumu reaches out and touches each white box in the correct numerical order. The rest of Koyoto University’s subjects get the order right about 40% of the time, compared to Ayumu’s amazing 80%. Click the link above to witness Ayumu outsmart her peers, and click http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20071208/fob2.asp if you want to learn more about the experiment pitting chimp brain-power against humans, where the chimps win. And we wonder about the Peter Principle?