If you’re looking for an excuse for why you failed your Calc final, you’re in luck. According to a study at Duke University, college students and monkeys are equally good at math. Well, mental addition, anyway. Jessica Cantlon, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at Duke, noted that nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans:

"[The study] shows when you take language away from a human, they end up looking just like monkeys in terms of their performance…I don't think language is the only thing that differentiates humans from non-human primates, but in terms of math tasks, it is probably the big one," she said.

Awesome.