A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

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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 ...

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Little kids hosting make-believe tea parties is a fixture of childhood playtime and long presumed to be exclusively a human ability. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University presented evidence in a new ...

A bonobo that took part in a pretend tea party like those acted out by young children has shown that our closest primate relatives have the capacity for make believe. Kanzi the bonobo (Pan paniscus) ...

Cattle feeding in the snow. (Photo courtesy Brownfield's Meghan Grebner.) An ag economist says there’s still no signs of expansion in the cattle herd. Josh Maples with Mississippi State University ...

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