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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.
Ayumu (born 24 April 2000) [1] is a chimpanzee currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University.He is the son of chimpanzee Ai and has been a participant since infancy in the Ai Project, an ongoing research effort aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition. [2]
Fortrea primate-testing lab, Vienna, Virginia, 2004–05. Most of the NHPs used are one of three species of macaques, accounting for 79% of all primates used in research in the UK, and 63% of all federally funded research grants for projects using primates in the U.S. [25] Lesser numbers of marmosets, tamarins, spider monkeys, owl monkeys, vervet monkeys, squirrel monkeys, and baboons are used ...
Viki was the subject of one of the first experiments in ape language.Viki was raised by Keith and Catherine Hayes in the same manner as a human infant, to see if she could learn human words.
Supposedly, the chimpanzee was caught in the Congo. [1] [3] Oliver was acquired as a young animal [3] in 1970 by trainers Frank and Janet Berger.Some physical and behavioral evidence led the Bergers to believe Oliver was a creature other than a chimpanzee, perhaps a human-chimpanzee hybrid.
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]
Chimp Crazy is an American documentary series directed and produced by Eric Goode . It follows Tonia Haddix, whose love for a chimpanzee spins into a wild game with authorities and the animal rights group PETA .
The couple had been watching film of Viki, the chimp involved in the early speech study, and noticed that she was intelligible without sound; she was making gestures with her hands as she tried to pronounce words. [16] The Gardners decided to test a chimpanzee's abilities with a gestural language, American Sign Language (ASL). They were not the ...