As humans have wondered about their own capacities for thought and imagination, so too have they wondered about the mental ...

Imagine this! Is there anything Kanzi the bonobo can’t do!? Just like 2-year-old children can, Kanzi, a unique bonobo that ...

Bonobos are highly intelligent primates capable of learning patterns, adapting strategies, and responding quickly to visual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kanzi was a famous bonobo who could understand spoken English and taught scientists a lot about primate behavior. He participated ...

Can animals play pretend? It took a tea party with a bonobo to find out. In a set of experiments, a team of researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi invisible juice and grapes, presenting the tests as ...

Bonobos are seen during the reopening of Cologne's zoo during the coronavirus crisis on May 5, 2020 in Cologne, Germany. - Jörg Schüler/Getty Images Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary ...

People are constantly looking at the behavior of others and coming up with ideas about what might be going on in their heads. Now, a new study of bonobos adds to evidence that they might do the same ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key features of human language, according to a new ...

(CNN) — Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not ...