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

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

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Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

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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.

Scientists sat across from a 43-year-old bonobo called Kanzi to have an imaginary tea party. Here’s what happened. View on ...

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