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 ...

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 ...

Nathan Kessel resorts to pretending to be a cat because it’s the only thing that works. He rescued Trump from one assassination attempt. Now he has to answer for another. The 10 hardest-working states ...

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 ...