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What led researchers to realize how intelligent baboons are?

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A yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus) is seen with its mouth wide open in its enclosure at Madrid Zoo.

Retry Correct Incorrect As CBS News reported, research at the Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in Marseille, France, determined that baboons were capable of abstract thinking when they could identify objects in the same categories on a computer screen. Although it took about 700 tries before they were considered 80% accurate, the fact that they could do it at all challenged previous assumptions of baboon intelligence.

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What led researchers to realize how intelligent baboons are?

Their sophisticated use of tools
Their ability to speak in sign language
Their complex social patterns
Their capacity for abstract thinking

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