Chimpanzees can understand how to play the rock-paper-scissors, Japanese primatologists have claimed.<br /><br />Footage released by Kyoto University in Japan shows a chimp making selections that indicate it knows how the game works.<br /><br />It reveals the ape understood that paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper.<br /><br />The study at the university’s Primate Research Institute trained seven chimpanzees the winning options, using a computer-controlled task. Results indicated five of them had learnt the pattern, according to the institute.<br /><br />The chimpanzee’s performance was comparable to that of a four-year-old child, however, the primate took longer to grasp the game than the children, researchers said.<br />
