Nim Chimpsky

Nim Chimpsky

In the 1970's, a chimp named Nim Chimpsky was raised by a human family and taught sign language to challenge Noam Chomsky's theory that only humans have language. Nim's longest sentence was “Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.”

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