(ABC News) -- Nim, a baby chimpanzee, was taken screaming from his sedated mother days after his birth in 1973 at the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, then given to a large New York City ...

Raised like a child, studied as an experiment and returned to captivity when his animal instincts surfaced, Nim Chimpsky lived a life that was as exceptional as it was heart-wrenching. From the ...

The latest film Oscar winner James Marsh ("Man on Wire") , "Project Nim," chronicles a Columbia University professor's ill-fated attempt to raise a chimp like a human baby, in an effort to teach it ...

In the ’70s, the whimsically named Nim Chimpsky appeared to provide evidence that animals could not only communicate with humans, but could do so through language — through the choosing and arranging ...

Imagine testing the nature-nurture debate by placing a chimpanzee in a New York family to teach him to communicate in human sign language. Consider the next step - a scientist and a beautiful research ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Nim Chimpsky was his name, and aside from that odd moniker, he was like lots of children. One of a raucous family brood, he liked fruit and rowdy play and cuddling with his mom and riding in the car.

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it's difficult to prove a negative like this because we'll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

Raising an animal as a human being seems a quaint if misguided notion in this age of heightened understanding of animal behavior and animal “rights.” But this was the organizing principle of a bold ...