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

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

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.

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

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

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

Scientists tested a bonobo called Kanzi and found evidence he could understand pretend objects, suggesting imagination may ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make phrases ...

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or “Aren’t they the only animals besides humans that wage wars?” ...

Juvenile bonobo embraces a distressed companion during post-conflict consolation. Psychologists from Durham University, UK, observed the behaviour of 90 sanctuary-living apes to establish whether ...