Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can ...

The findings indicate that bonobos—or at least that Kanzi had—have the capacity to imagine, says Christopher Krupenye, an ...

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They sometimes touched their lips together, breathed into one another’s open mouths, or stood on two legs and hugged.

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Play is important for animals in captivity, both as an indicator of their emotional states and as a contributor to their long ...

On New Years, the Nashville Zoo welcomed its first-ever baby aardvark, who has been named Happy. See why this birth is such a huge milestone.

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Joy—fleeting woo-hoo moments like "catching the perfect wave"—is felt by many diverse animals, and researchers want to know how they express it in various situations and why.

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