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

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

A bonobo tracked imaginary juice and pretend grapes in an experiment, challenging long-held assumptions about the abilities ...

Do apes have imagination? A tea party experiment offers clues - Scientists wondered whether Kanzi, the bonobo, had the ...

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

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

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

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

For centuries, people all over the world have told stories about ghosts. In many cultures, the dead are believed to come back in spirit form. Some believe ghosts live in old houses. Others think they ...

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.

US physicists have shed light on a long-standing mystery after they captured rare experimental ...