Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery ...

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

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

An ape was able to identify the location of imaginary objects in pretend scenarios, researchers find ...

Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a ...

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 ...

Imagination is one of our greatest superpowers, but how far back does it go? Scientists from Johns Hopkins University ...

New research suggests bonobos can engage in pretend play, a behavior long thought to be uniquely human. New research suggests ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

The ability to imagine -- to play pretend -- has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests certain apes may be able to as well.

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.