![]() JENNY LEE: You know, I think he figured that he could just get in between Weir and Stephanie on some level. I wasn't prepared at all for the wild animal in him and the drive.īy the time he was three months old, I think, and starting to be ambulatory, he was just right there, nothing passive, nothing passive ever. By the time I had Nim, of course I felt very comfortable with babies. ![]() Everything was about treating him like a human being. STEPHANIE LAFARGE: I breastfed him for a couple of months. The second voice you'll hear is LaFarge's daughter Jenny. In this clip, Stephanie LaFarge describes the extremes she went to to raise Nim like her own baby and the impact it had on her marriage to her husband Weir(ph). He also directed "Man on Wire." "Project Nim" combines film documenting the original experiment, along with new interviews. Our first guest is the director of the documentary "Project Nim," James Marsh. Later, we'll hear from Stephanie LaFarge's daughter Jenny Lee, who was 13 when Nim moved in with her family and Bob Ingersoll, who became Nim's friend and advocate when the experiment ended. Nim was sent back to the primate research facility, then to a center that used chimps for medical experiments and finally to an animal refuge. Over the course of five years, Nim had a couple of other surrogate mothers and several researchers working with him, was moved to an estate owned by the university and learned about 120 signs.īut as he grew, he became more aggressive and sexual, and the study was terminated. Nim lived with LaFarge, her second husband and their combined family of seven children in a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Professor Terrace gave him to his former student, Stephanie LaFarge, and assigned her to raise him as if he were her own baby and teach him to sign. Nim was born at a primate research facility and taken away from his mother when he was two weeks old. That experiment and its surprising and disturbing consequences is the subject of the new documentary "Project Nim." If a baby chimp was raised like a human baby, could it be taught sign language and then learn to use words in a sentence and communicate like a human child? That's the question Columbia University psychology professor Herb Terrace set out to answer when he launched his now famous and controversial experiment with a baby chimp named Nim in 1973.
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