Recent research suggests that bonobos possess advanced cognitive skills, particularly the ability to intuitively understand the knowledge of others, akin to 'reading minds.' In an experiment, three bonobos were able to identify the location of hidden treats based on the researcher's awareness, revealing a significant level of social intelligence. This challenges previous skepticism about animal cognition and emphasizes that such mental understanding is crucial for cooperation and social interaction, similar to skills developing in human children from age three.
The ability to sense gaps in one another's knowledge is at the heart of our most sophisticated social behaviours, central to the ways we cooperate.
Bonobos showed they could intuitively 'read the mind' of a researcher by understanding who did or didn't know where food was hidden.
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