Past anecdotal observations have hinted that great apes play pretend. But now, experimental research shows that our closest ...

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

At a pretend tea party, a bonobo named Kanzi did something so unexpected that it’s reshaping how scientists think about ...

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too.

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

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

Scientists tested a bonobo called Kanzi and found evidence he could understand pretend objects, suggesting imagination may ...

Kanzi, the bonobo, once again topples barriers between humans and great apes by demonstrating imagination, a cognitive capacity thought unique to humans ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...