For nearly two decades, a rotating cast of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans at Leipzig Zoo sat through hundreds ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine, suggests new research. A series of tea party-like experiments are the first study to show the capacity to pretend is not unique to mankind. Scientists showed ...

For the first time, an experiment offers compelling hints that a captive ape possesses this capacity. Christopher Krupenye, a study co-author from Johns Hopkins University, expressed the significance ...

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The largest great ape cognition dataset combines 18 years of studies to reveal patterns in learning, memory, and intelligence ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists used a mirror experiment to explore whether animals could recognize themselves. In that test, researchers placed a mark on an animal’s body where it could only be seen in a ...

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 ...