Remember childhood tea parties? The cups are empty, the teapot is dry, yet the air is thick with the drama of imagined pouring, sipping, and spilling. The mental gymnastics required to participate in ...

The great apes are the closest living relatives to humans. We share over ninety-eight percent of our DNA with some species of these creatures, and it's valuable to think of ourselves as being more ...

Apes orphaned by the illegal trade in bushmeat and pets can overcome trauma and develop social abilities like those of their mother-reared peers. Bonobos are our closest living relatives, along with ...

A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight. Kanzi ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bonobos can keep track of individuals, even when they can no longer see them. A new study has found the great apes can follow the ...

Bonobos, one of humanity’s closest relatives, can tell when a human doesn’t know something and steps in to help — a cognitive ability never before identified in nonhuman apes, a study found.

Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives. Imagination develops in early childhood through creative play and later becomes a ...

When a male bonobo oversteps his bounds — say, by hopping into a tree and shaking the branches while others are trying to feed — females in the troop tend to act fast. They kick him, they chase him, ...

9-year-old bonobo, Max, died June 18 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the zoo announced July 24. A necropsy revealed Max suffered from gastric ulcers and heat-related illness, although the root cause ...

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To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn't know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...