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Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo, identified and tracked pretend objects across tea party-like experiments, marking the first controlled demonstration of imagination in a nonhuman animal In three ...

The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative Imagination—the ability to conjure up ideas, images or scenarios that don’t exist in the ...

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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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe ...

Party for Kanzi Scientists wondered whether Kanzi had the capacity to play pretend—that is, act like something is real while knowing it’s not. They’d heard reports of female chimpanzees in the wild ...