Could a monkey play carrom?

 

 

 

Salam alaykum

 

The Congo Monkey Institute has written in Journal that chimpanzees are able to grasp the rules of carrom and post decent scores. The CMI conducted a three year experiment (2020 - 2023) under lab conditions and observed that three test monkeys (Jill, Bongo and Mango) exhibited flair and made nice covers.
 

With opposable thumbs and a 99% shared DNA with humans, this is perhaps no surprise.

However, Team Leader Milly Oleson did note that the female chimps, Jill and Mango, exhibited ennui after 5 minutes of gameplay and started checking their phones while - in a control experiment next door- the male chimp, Bongo, up against a human in a full set, lost the game, lost the plot and ate the board. 

Of other primates studied in trials, the CMI suggests that Bonobo monkeys show no interest in carrom, sloths can't be actually bothered and that baboons can get tae fk.