Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

Past anecdotal observations have hinted that great apes play pretend. But now, experimental research shows that our closest living relatives can keep track of imaginary objects.

Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives.

Scientists have been trying to figure out for a long time whether monkeys have imagination. A new study has shown that bonobo Kanzi has it. This was reported by Scientific American on February 5.

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences at Johns Hopkins and ...

Bonobos and chimps are our closest living links to the six million-year-old ancestor from which both they and we descended. As primatologist Frans de Waal points out, Kano's work "was a major ...