Baboons Can Read... In The Near Future!

Baboons may not be able to read, exactly, but a new study indicated that they can tell the difference between real words and gibberish words with surprising accuracy.
A study published in the journal Science consisted of 300,000 tests in which four baboons were tasked with picking, on a computer screen, whether a word was gibberish ("BRRU") or real ("KITE"). They were rewarded with food for correct answers. The baboons were correct three-fourths of the time, with the most successful of them, four-year-old Dan, achieving 80% accuracy. The feat goes well beyond rote memorization, as the monkeys were able to understand which letters tended to combine in true words and could thus accurately categorize words they'd never seen before.