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

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 ...

Remember childhood tea parties? The cups are empty, the teapot is dry, yet the air is thick with the drama of imagined ...

Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

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

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

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

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

The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our closest living relatives can do it too.

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

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

The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of these creatures, and it’s valuable to think of ourselves as being more ...