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Movie Review: “Project NIM” (+)

by Ed Koch

July 18, 2011

Ed Koch Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch

This is a fascinating documentary about a family with seven children raising a chimp in the 1970s.

Dr. Herbert Terrace, associated with Columbia University, called on Stephanie LaFarge to mother a baby chimp named Nim on the fifth day of its life. The project was a scientific experiment to hopefully teach sign language to the chimp enabling it to communicate with humans.

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