Kitten's toy-feeding tea party on a feeder cam vs the bonobo Kanzi pretend-play study in Science
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-31
A feeder camera captured a kitten spending minutes trying to feed its favorite toy — an unprompted 'tea party.' The author contrasts this with February's Science paper on bonobo Kanzi: researchers pretended to pour juice into two empty cups and 'dump' one; Kanzi picked the right cup 34 of 50 times, the first controlled evidence an animal can track something that isn't there. Skeptics like psychologist Michael Tomasello wanted Kanzi to do the pretend-pouring himself before believing it.
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