It has long been known that apes can plan ahead and consider the beliefs of other individuals, but no reproducible evidence has shown an ape’s ability to engage with make-believe objects.

We humans concoct never-before-heard sentences with ease, embedding phrases within phrases to express the wildest ideas we can dream up (“the purple pangolin that waltzed across the ballroom had a ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex thoughts in a way that mirrors some elements of human language, a new study ...