Baby monkey Punch-kun draws huge crowds to Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan after viral photos show him clutching a stuffed ...

An international research team, including VUB data scientist Yannick Jadoul, has shed new light on the rhythmic nature of sexual behavior in bonobos. By precisely analyzing the tempo of movements ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

You’re at a pretend tea party, but instead of sitting across from toddlers in tiaras, you’re clinking cups with Kanzi—an ape ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

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 ...

Young primates in a southern African nature park were observed to constantly interfere when their mother was giving attention ...

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 ...

The ability to imagine — to play pretend — has long been thought to be unique to humans. A new study suggests one of our closest living relatives can do it too.

Primate’s Troy Kotsur and Johnny Sequoyah open up about the most unsettling part of the crazed chimp movie. Watch the featurette here.

Researchers adapted the playbook for studying young children to stage a juice party for Kanzi. They poured imaginary juice ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.