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A bonobo's pretend tea party has scientists rethinking imagination
NewstalkZB 21 Feb 2026
A bonobo named Kanzi was sitting at a table across from a researcher. On the table are two completely empty clear cups and an empty clear jug ... Humans and bonobos share a common ancestor from around six to nine million years ago ... LISTEN ABOVE. .
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Rhythm During Sex in Bonobos provides New Insights into the Evolution of Communication (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Public Technologies 18 Feb 2026
The study is based on detailed video recordings of bonobos in zoos, analyzed frame by frame ... [...]. This is an abstract of the document ... Attachments Original document Permalink.
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Rhythm during sex in bonobos provides new insights into the evolution of communication
Phys Dot Org 17 Feb 2026
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The bonobo experiment shows that imagination may not be something that only humans have
The Times of India 17 Feb 2026
Imagination may not be a privilege for humans alone, as research with a language-experienced bonobo in controlled cognitive testing showed.
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Rhythm During Sex in Bonobos provides New Insights into the Evolution of CommunicationBrussels, 17/02/2026 – 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 during sex, researchers aim to better understand which building blocks of rhythm and communication are present in other species—and what this implies for the evolution of uniquely human traits such as speech and music. (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Public Technologies 17 Feb 2026
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Bonobos Taps Actor Nicholas Braun in a New Campaign Celebrating the Chino That Started It All
PR Newswire 10 Feb 2026
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Bonobos are capable of pretend play, just like human children
CNN 09 Feb 2026
The evidence for this comes from a bonobo named Kanzi, who took part in three pretend tea party-style experiments conducted by two researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Saturday Citations: Imaginative bonobos; cannabis brain benefits; sneaky beetles
Phys Dot Org 07 Feb 2026
This week in science news ... A new, experimental pill dramatically reduces bad cholesterol ... ....
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Playing pretend: What a bonobo tea party tells us about ape minds
Daily Sabah 06 Feb 2026
By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may see ....
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Bonobos can play make-believe much like children, study suggests
The Guardian 05 Feb 2026
... children are adept at engaging in make-believe – now researchers say bonobos can do it too.
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A bonobo tea party: Study shows humans aren't the only species that can pretend
NBC News 05 Feb 2026
Humans aren't the only species that can pretend, a study shows. Scientists offered a bonobo imaginary juice and grapes in a make-believe tea party, and the ape played along ... .
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Kanzi the famous bonobo may have understood ‘pretend’ objects
Scientific American 05 Feb 2026
This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine ... .
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Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party
Ars Technica 05 Feb 2026
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University presented evidence in a new paper published in the journal Science that a bonobo named Kanzi was also able to participate in pretending to hold a tea party ... Read full article. Comments .
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Can Bonobos Play Pretend? Watch Kanzi's "Tea Parties" To see What They Reveal About Primate Imagination
IFL Science 05 Feb 2026
Imagination is one of our greatest superpowers, but how far back does it go? Scientists from Johns Hopkins University recently investigated one aspect of imagination in bonobos ... The much-loved bonobo ...
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