Old highly experienced rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) retained oddity learning-sets nearly perfectly until retested 7 yr. later without specific intervening experience on oddity problems. Younger animals, which were not as proficient at oddity learning-sets initially, very rapidly approached the level of the old animals during the test for retention.
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