The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative.

The internet has a new favorite His name is Punch (or Punch-kun, as he's Japanese), a young macaque monkey living at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Like pygmy hippo Moo Deng or fluffy penguin Pesto, ...

Punch, a Japanese macaque, received an outpour of online love after videos of him clutching a small orangutan plushie at the ...

No, chimpanzees and other great apes cannot breed with monkeys. Even though we often think of primates – the order of mammals that includes great apes such as chimps and ourselves, gibbons, monkeys ...

In a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution of human cognition, a bonobo (a.k.a. pygmy chimpanzee) has demonstrated the ability to create mental images of pretend scenarios. This ...

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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 ...

A male bonobo called Kanzi is the first non-human animal to clearly grasp the concept of make believe. In experiments reported today in Science, the ape favoured a cup that scientists had pretended to ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

In a playtime experiment, researchers found that our closest living relatives have the capacity for make-believe, too. By Alexa Robles-Gil Having an imaginary friend, playing house or daydreaming ...

Nothing brings a group of primates together, humans included, quite like a threat from outside. Bonobos are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos, even during conflicts with ...