Project Nim – in pictures

Released on Friday, the film documentary Project Nim tells the sad story of a very unnatural ape
  
  


Project Nim: Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee subject of Project Nim
Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee breast-fed and raised like a human child by Stephanie LaFarge Photograph: PR
Project Nim: Nim Chimpsky uses chalk to draw on a slate.
Nim plays with a piece of chalk and a slate at LaFarge's home Photograph: PR
Project Nim: Nim Chimpsky with Prof Herbert Terrace and Stephanie Lafarge
Nim with Professor Herbert Terrace, the director of Project Nim, and Stephanie LaFarge Photograph: Harry Benson/PR
Project Nim: Composite image of Nim Chimpsky interracting with humans
Nim being taught American Sign Language Photograph: PR
Project Nim: Laura-Ann Petitto teaching Nim Chimpsky sign language in Project Nim
Columbia University student Laura-Ann Petitto teaching Nim sign language Photograph: Sarah Kuklin/PR
Project Nim: Bob Ingersoll and Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee subject of Project Nim
Nim with psychology grad student Bob Ingersoll, who befriended the chimp after he was returned to the primate research centre in Tuxedo, New York Photograph: PR
Project Nim: A chimp playing Nim Chimpsky in a still from Project Nim
A chimp apes Nim Chimpsky in a publicity shot for the film documentary Project Nim Photograph: PR
Project Nim: Chimp representing Nim Chimpsky in Project Nim
More than 60 sign language teachers worked with Nim. He would form attachments and build trust with a particular teacher, only to have them leave and another student arrive Photograph: PR
Project Nim: Prof Herbert Terrace drives Nim in the film documentary Project Nim
The actor playing Professor Herbert Terrace with Nim Chimpsky Photograph: Susan Kuklin/PR
Project Nim: Nim Chimpsky of Project Nim looks down from a window
After Nim had spent five years living as part of a human family, Terrace decided he had enough data and sent the chimpanzee back to the laboratory Photograph: PR
 

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