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

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

A new experiment hints that an ape may be able to play pretend like humans do. Scientists studied a bonobo named Kanzi who was raised in captivity and became a whiz at communicating with humans using ...

In the first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human, the ape favoured a cup filled with imaginary juice over one with ...

Kanzi, a bonobo with exceptional language skills, took part in a make-believe tea party that demonstrated cognitive abilities ...

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

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