Animals & Nature
Great Apes & Primate Intelligence Quiz ðĶ
Gorillas, chimps, and orangutans â our closest relatives are smarter than you think.
Gorillas, chimps, and orangutans â our closest relatives are smarter than you think.
Chimpanzee Ayumu can memorize the position of numbers flashed on a screen for just 210 milliseconds â consistently outperforming human adults in short-term memory tests. Great apes are our closest living relatives, sharing between 96% and 98.7% of our DNA, and they continue to challenge our assumptions about intelligence, culture, and what it means to be human.
Each round presents 10 randomized multiple-choice questions drawn from a pool of 50, so every playthrough is different. You get instant feedback with explanations after each answer, plus a shareable score at the end.
You'll explore gorilla social structures and silverback behavior, chimpanzee tool use and warfare documented by Jane Goodall, bonobo conflict resolution through social bonding, orangutan intelligence and the devastating impact of palm oil on their habitat, and the remarkable ways great apes demonstrate empathy, grief, and self-awareness.
Yes â biologically, humans are great apes. The family Hominidae includes gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and humans. We share 98.7% of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos, making them our closest living relatives.
Gorillas are highly intelligent primates. Koko, a western lowland gorilla, learned over 1,000 signs in American Sign Language and could understand around 2,000 words of spoken English. Gorillas also display empathy, use basic tools, and have demonstrated self-recognition in mirrors.
Orangutans are critically endangered primarily due to deforestation driven by palm oil plantations in Borneo and Sumatra. Palm oil is found in roughly 50% of supermarket products, and clearing rainforest for plantations destroys the habitat orangutans depend on. Only around 14,000 Sumatran orangutans remain in the wild.
Last updated: March 2026