Monkey see, monkey add. And in the same test of high-speed arithmetic, it turns out, people see and people add using what looks like the monkey method for doing rough sums without counting.
MONKEY MATH. The rhesus macaque (above) can manage basic addition in computer tests, performing much as people do on the same tasks when told to answer fast without counting (below).
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