Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...

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

They placed a hamster wheel in the wild to see whether mice would use it as they do in captivity. Not only did the wild mice ...

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New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

Apes, like humans, are capable of pretend play, challenging long-held views about how animals think, a new study suggests.

They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

In the first demonstration of pretend play in a non-human, the ape favoured a cup filled with imaginary juice over one with ...

Animals such as royal birds, trained for hunting, and bulls, revered and feared, are a part of traditions that show how much human society has relied on animals for survival and celebration. Although ...

A new study shows a bonobo can track pretend juice and grapes, suggesting apes also have imagination, not only humans.