{"id":5471,"date":"2026-02-23T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2026-02-23T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:52:10","slug":"dr-chris-krupenye-highlighted-in-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/2026\/02\/23\/dr-chris-krupenye-highlighted-in-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chris Krupenye highlighted in New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Chris Krupenye and Amalia Bastos published a new paper &#8220;Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo&#8221; and were featered in the New York Times for their work. Big Congratulations!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Editor summarizes this research: &#8220;Classic childhood activities like tea parties and sword fights with sticks demonstrate the human ability to generate secondary representations, conditions we know aren\u2019t &#8216;real&#8217; but that we nonetheless engage with. Whether nonhuman animals are capable of these types of representations has been difficult to test. Bastos and Krupenye studied a language-trained bonobo, Kanzi, to see whether he could understand and engage with pretend conditions. Across three different experiments, Kanzi was able to identify pretend objects, demonstrating that he could create a secondary representation and showing that humans are not alone in this ability. \u2014Sacha Vignieri&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adz0743\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adz0743\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the New York Times article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/05\/science\/bonobos-apes-imagination.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/05\/science\/bonobos-apes-imagination.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chris Krupenye and Amalia Bastos published a new paper &#8220;Evidence for representation of pretend objects by Kanzi, a language-trained bonobo&#8221; and were featered in the New York Times for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":722,"featured_media":5472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/behavioralbiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}