Nim Chimpsky : The Chimp Who Would Be Human (Paperback)

from elbakerone

In Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, author Elizabeth Hess chronicles the awkward but innovative experiment in which a chimpanzee was raised as a human in order to test the long held ideal that language is a uniquely human trait. Named in parody of linguist Noam Chomsky, Nim Chimpsky is...

from princesspeaches

I really loved this book! It was truly heartbreaking to read about all of the torments that Nim went through and he seemed to really believe he was human, which after all was the purpose of most of the experimenting he went through. I was entertained, horrified, I cried, and I was amazed. That ab...

from Tyllwin

This book is the biography of chimp, and an examination of the circumstances surrounding his life and death. The animal in question was called "Nim Chimpsky" and he was raised in a human home and taught sign language from birth as part of an experiment to try and refute linguist Noam Chomsky's te...

from grumpyvegan

If there's anyone left on the planet who needs convincing that chimpanzees are more like us (or we're like them) than they'd care to think they need to read Elizabeth Hess's biography of Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). Animal biographies...

from grumpyvegan

If there's anyone left on the planet who needs convincing that chimpanzees are more like us (or we're like them) than they'd care to think they need to read Elizabeth Hess's biography of Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee who was taught to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). Animal biographies...