Apes Show Ability to Imagine in ‘Tea Party’ Experiments, and Scientists are Very Excited

Apes Show Ability to Imagine in ‘Tea Party’ Experiments, and Scientists are Very Excited

43-year-old bonobo named Kanzi – Courtesy of Ape Initiative / Johns Hopkins / SWNS Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, called it the first study to show the capacity for pretending is not … Read more

Rare Twins Born to Mountain Gorilla Family in Virunga National Park

Rare Twins Born to Mountain Gorilla Family in Virunga National Park

– credit, Virunga National Park The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins. Now numbering 59 individuals, the twins were born to an adult female named Makufu, who will be closely monitored during the babies’ childhood. Mountain gorillas are a critically-endangered subspecies of the … Read more