Punch, a Japanese macaque, received an outpour of online love after videos of him clutching a small orangutan plushie at the ...

You’re at a pretend tea party, but instead of sitting across from toddlers in tiaras, you’re clinking cups with Kanzi—an ape ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...

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 ...

It has long been known that apes can plan ahead and consider the beliefs of other individuals, but no reproducible evidence ...

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

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

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 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.

Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...