In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University presented evidence in a new ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine, suggests new research. A series of tea party-like experiments are the first study to show the capacity to pretend is not unique to mankind. Scientists showed ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine, suggests new research. A series of tea party-like experiments are the first study to show the capacity to pretend is not unique to mankind. American scientists ...

Amalia Bastos first met Kanzi the bonobo in 2023. Bastos was “starstruck,” she recalls: Kanzi was famous for learning how to communicate with humans using a keyboard of symbols. Upon first seeing ...