LaFarge visited him and, after entering his cage, Nim dragged her about by her ankle.Ī year after moving to the ranch, a female chimpanzee was brought to live with Nim. Occasionally, he would escape from his cage, and on one of these occasions he killed a dog. Fearing negative publicity, NYU released Nim, and he was bought by Cleveland Amory and moved to Black Beauty Ranch in Texas.Īlthough Nim was no longer being experimented on, he was the only primate at Black Beauty Ranch.
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Bob Ingersoll, an employee of the Institute for Primate Studies who had befriended Nim, objected to the move and worked to free Nim, and a newspaper article led to a lawyer becoming involved. Lemmon sold many of his chimpanzees, including Nim, to the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates (LEMSIP), a pharmaceutical animal testing laboratory managed by New York University (NYU). Terrace to conclude that Nim's use of sign language seemed to be mimicry to receive a reward, rather than indicating an understanding of grammar and more human-like use of language.įaced with financial difficulties, Dr. Terrace returned Nim to the Institute for Primate Studies, where Nim saw another chimpanzee for the first time since he was an infant. He learned the signs for many more words and attracted some media attention, but he also injured a number of the researchers, which became increasingly troubling as he continued to become larger and stronger.Īfter ending the experiment, Dr. Neither LaFarge nor her husband or children were fluent in the American Sign Language that was being taught to Nim, and Terrace and his research assistant, Laura-Ann Petitto, had concerns that the experiment should be more controlled, so Nim was eventually moved to a property owned by Columbia University, where he was raised and taught by a group of students, who would bring him to a classroom at Columbia to be tested. Nim was placed in the home of Stephanie LaFarge, a former student of Terrace, who was instructed to raise him as if he were a human child to see if he would acquire human-like language.
William Lemmon's Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee, was separated from his mother and taken to New York to participate in an extended study of animal language acquisition conducted by Dr. Late in 1973, two weeks after being born at Dr. It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, who was the center of a research project that was mounted in the 1970s to determine whether a primate raised in close contact with humans would develop a limited "language" based on American Sign Language. Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh.
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