# zoo: clever but not as clever as humans

<< Apes' intelligence may be entirely misunderstood, because research has so far failed to measure it fairly and accurately >>

<< Hundreds of scientific studies over two decades have told us that apes are clever – just not as clever as us >>

Apes’ abilities misunderstood by decades of poor science. Aug 31, 2017

http://uopnews.port.ac.uk/2017/08/31/apes-abilities-misunderstood-by-decades-of-poor-science/

<< in the last two decades, numerous contemporary researchers in comparative psychology have claimed human superiority over apes in social intelligence, based on two-group comparisons between postindustrial, Western Europeans and captive apes, where the apes have been isolated from European styles of social interaction, and tested with radically different procedures >>

David A. Leavens, Kim A. Bard, William D. Hopkins. The mismeasure of ape social cognition. Animal Cognition. doi: 10.1007/s10071-017-1119-1 Aug 4, 2017

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-017-1119-1

also

# s-brain: the question is: Humans vs Woodstock, who is the smarter?  Jun 26, 2016

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/06/s-brain-question-is-humans-vs-parrots.html