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I'm Jason Goldman. Imagine you had never tasted lemonade. You would still probably assume that lemon juice mixed with sugar tastes better than lemon juice alone.

Because you know what lemons taste like and you know what sugar tastes like. You can recall those past experiences and make a prediction about your response to something new.

Researchers call the ability to predict our future emotional state, effective forecasting.

And some have suggested that the skill is unique to humans.

But is it?

We combine different liquids and ask participants the orangutan and the humans to predict how

such novel liquid combinations taste like and whether they prefer the one or the other.

Lund University cognitive scientist Gabriela Alina Sauchuk.

She and her colleagues offered their cocktails to a 21-year-old male Sumatran or Rangutan named Nauk,

who lives in Sweden's Furovic Zoo.

They used four ingredients, cherry juice, rhubarb juice, lemon juice, and diluted apple cider vinegar,

which they combined into six unfamiliar mixtures, altogether that made for 24 possible comparisons

of one drink against another.

Nang watched the researchers mix his drinks, then he got to choose from the two set before

him, and in 21 of the 24 trials, Nang matched the researchers' predictions that his choice

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