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 ...
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Study found that bonobos can imagine pretend events and interact with them at a basic level
Having a tea party with a bonobo sounds fun.
As humans have wondered about their own capacities for thought and imagination, so too have they wondered about the mental ...
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 ...
The ability to imagine things that aren't real is a fundamental part of the human experience. Scientists have long suspected some animals also have the ability to imagine and play pretend. NPR's Nate ...
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