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

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

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

An ape was able to identify the location of imaginary objects in pretend scenarios, researchers find ...

Imagination is one of our greatest superpowers, but how far back does it go? Scientists from Johns Hopkins University ...

Researchers set up a series of tea party-like experiments with Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who had provided decades ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

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

Kanzi, the famous bonobo at Des Moines' Ape Cognition and Conservation Initiative, has died at the age of 44. He had been his normal, happy self, and was even playing in the towers the day he died, ...