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Project Nim is a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh. [3] It tells the life story of a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky , who was the center of a 1970s research project to determine whether a primate could learn to speak using American Sign Language . [ 4 ]
Nim's life history is detailed in Elizabeth Hess's seminal biography, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human (2008), which became the basis for a 2011 documentary film directed by James Marsh, Project Nim (see below). Nim was born at the Institute for Primate Studies in Norman, Oklahoma.
Terrace's research in Project Nim has been criticized for its research methodology and various ethical concerns, most notably, in Elizabeth Hess's Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human (2008) [20] and a documentary film based on the book, Project Nim (2011). Following the project's conclusion, Nim was effectively abandoned by Terrace, who ...
Kanzi was born to Lorel and Bosandjo at Yerkes Field Station at Emory University in 1980. Shortly after birth, Kanzi was stolen and adopted by a more dominant female, Matata, the matriarch of the group.
Nimrod (computer), an early computer to play Nim; Nimrod (distributed computing), a tool for distributed parametric modelling; Nimrod (synchrotron), a proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978; Nimrod (programming language), former name of Nim; Project NIMROD, a meteorological field study
[4] Stella Marsden, who ran the chimpanzee rehabilitation project, stated that Lucy’s age and background meant she was not a suitable candidate for rehabilitation. A more humane option for Lucy was to retire with other chimpanzees who could not be rehabilitated either and to continue to receive the food, magazines, toys et cetera that she had ...
I have seen the documentary Project Nim. It contains interviews with most of the people that were involved in this project. They all call the ape Nim, not Nim Chimpsky. The article says that Nim Chimpsky is a pun on Noam Chomsky. Was Chimpsky actually adopted as his real name. Who invented this name, and how widely was it spread.
Lana (October 7, 1970 - November, 2016) was a female chimpanzee, the first to use lexigrams in language research. She was born at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, and the project she was allocated to when 1 year old, the LANguage Analogue project led by Duane Rumbaugh, was named after her with the acronym LANA because the project team felt that her identity was ...