By Liz Kimbrough Imagine you’re at a tea party with a bonobo. What kind of tea are you serving? Are there cakes? What is the ...

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 ability to play ...

Bonobos have a reputation of being the hippies of the ape world, due to their propensity to “make love, not war.” But a new study reveals that bonobos, found only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...

The study focused on Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo who died in March 2025 at the age of 44. Ape Initiative Imagination—the ability to conjure up ideas, images or scenarios that don’t exist in the ...

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 ...