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A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

When a child turns a cardboard box into a spaceship, or a stick into a magic wand, it may look like simple fun. But beneath the giggles and dramatic voices, something far more powerful may be ...

Emma Laird recalls a moment — not all that long ago — when she was stood on the rooftop of her apartment in Los Angeles, looking out across a postcard-worthy sunset skyline and smoking a cigarette.

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 a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem ...

Scientists sat across from a 43-year-old bonobo called Kanzi to have an imaginary tea party. Here’s what happened. The ability to imagine has long been thought of as uniquely human - but scientists ...

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 ...

Scientists once thought only humans could use their imagination, but a new study suggests apes can, too. During a series of experiments, scientists discovered a bonobo called Kanzi could engage in ...

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

A male bonobo called Kanzi is the first non-human animal to clearly grasp the concept of make believe. In experiments reported today in Science, the ape favoured a cup that scientists had pretended to ...