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Episode: Can apes play pretend? Scientists use an imaginary tea party to find out
Description: 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 seem uniquely humanβa bedrock of creativity that's led to new kinds of art, music, and more.
Now, for the first time, an experiment hints that an ape in captivity can have an imagination. "What's really exciting about this work is that it suggests that the roots of this capacity for imagination are not unique to our species," said study co-author Christopher Krupenye with Johns Hopkins University.
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