I found this via j-walk blog.
Nim Chimpsky, named after the great linguist Noam Chomsky, was the first chimpanzee to learn American sign language. Nim became famous, and was the subject of numerous books and television specials. But when the researchers had no more use for him, they opted to sell him to a hepatitis research lab, where he would have been the subject of painful experiments and eventually killed. Nim enjoyed looking at magazines, watching television, and putting on hats and shoes.Our scientists have taken this chimp and developed its sense of self-awareness to far above what it would normally have been. To an extent where it could, arguably, appreciate it's suffering more. Then tortured it and killed it. Some things make you ashamed to be a human being really.
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or read the most recent entries here.Nim Chimpsky was free'd by activists and sent to a sanctuary in Texas. He died in 2000 at age 26 of a heart attack.. he was never part of any medical experiments.
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Posted by: Michael at October 10, 2003 08:15 AMThat certainly is good news EC.
Posted by: chris at October 10, 2003 10:31 AMI would like to know the reality about the great Nim Chimpsky, subject of linguistic experiments. Of course, it is new for me that he was also a victim of some other terrible experiments, and I just hope what you are portraying in this page is wrong... or at least not totally truth... I just would like to hear that this magnificient example of linguistic research wasn't really killed by some linguistics ignorant people! Please send me a reply!
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