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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The entire project and Nim's life (if there ever was a plan for him beyond the project), particularly while under the [=LaFarges=]. It isn't until he is moved to the second house when there is an actual record keeping and planning of the experiment, and he learns most of his signs.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: The entire project and Nim's life (if there ever was a plan for him beyond the project), particularly while under the [=LaFarges=]. It isn't until he is moved to the second house when there is an actual record keeping and planning of the experiment, and he learns most of his signs.
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* ApatheticCitizens:
** When Nim is sold to LEMSIP, Bob Ingersoll and another student-keeper at the Institute for Primate Studies try to raise awareness and oppose the move, but they meet indifference from the populace and educators alike; only some journalists show interest.
** The workers at LEMSIP know that Nim knows sign language, but treat him like any other subject. Furthermore, they know that ''other chimps'' from the IPS also know signs (which means either Nim taught them or they copied him), but this only spurs them to teach staff a few signs so they can order the chimps better. Nobody seems to give more importance to this, nor does it make anyone think about giving the chimps better living conditions.
** When Nim is sold to LEMSIP, Bob Ingersoll and another student-keeper at the Institute for Primate Studies try to raise awareness and oppose the move, but they meet indifference from the populace and educators alike; only some journalists show interest.
** The workers at LEMSIP know that Nim knows sign language, but treat him like any other subject. Furthermore, they know that ''other chimps'' from the IPS also know signs (which means either Nim taught them or they copied him), but this only spurs them to teach staff a few signs so they can order the chimps better. Nobody seems to give more importance to this, nor does it make anyone think about giving the chimps better living conditions.
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**ApatheticCitizens: When Nim is sold to LEMSIP, Bob Ingersoll and another student-keeper at the Institute for Primate Studies try to raise awareness and oppose the move, but they meet indifference from the populace and educators alike; only some journalists show interest.
** The workers at LEMSIP know that Nim knows sign language, but treat him like any other subject. Furthermore, they know that ''other chimps'' from the IPS also know signs (which means either Nim taught them or they copied him), but this only spurs them to teach staff a few signs so they can order the chimps better. Nobody seems to give more importance to this, nor does it make anyone think about giving the chimps better living conditions.interest.
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** The workers at LEMSIP know that Nim knows sign language, but treat him like any other subject. Furthermore, they know that ''other chimps'' from the IPS also know signs (which means either Nim taught them or they copied him), but this only spurs them to teach staff a few signs so they can order the chimps better. Nobody seems to give more importance to this, nor does it make anyone think about giving the chimps better living conditions.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The workers at LEMSIP know that Nim knows sign language, but treat him like any other subject. Furthermore, they know that ''other chimps'' from the IPS also know signs (which means either Nim taught them or they copied him), but this only spurs them to teach staff a few signs so they can order the chimps better. Nobody seems to give more importance to this, nor does it make anyone think about giving the chimps better living conditions.
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* TheSeventies: The decade of Nim's birth (1975) and the language project.
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* TheSeventies: The decade of Nim's birth (1975) and (1973), the language project.project, and his stays in the IPS and LEMSIP.
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* BittersweetEnding: Nim's FromBadToWorse life is cut short when he dies of a heart attack at the Black Beauty Ranch animal refuge at the age of 25 (chimps can live thrice that in captivity). However, he lived his last years in a more spacious residence, without experimentation, in the company of a chimp troop (three of which were rescued from LEMSIP, counting Nim), had a mate and likely fathered a baby, and was visited regularly by his "friend", Bob Ingersoll. Additionally, while the project was deemed unsuccessful in teaching Nim true language, Nim learned 125 different signs, and LEMSIP was closed in 1995.
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* BittersweetEnding: Nim's FromBadToWorse life is cut short when he dies of a heart attack at the in Black Beauty Ranch animal refuge at the age of 25 26 (chimps can live almost thrice that in captivity). However, he lived his last years in a more spacious residence, without experimentation, in the company of a chimp troop (three of which were rescued from LEMSIP, counting Nim), had a mate and likely fathered a baby, and was visited regularly by his "friend", Bob Ingersoll. Additionally, while the project was deemed unsuccessful in teaching Nim true language, Nim learned 125 different signs, and LEMSIP was closed in 1995.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The experiment goes off the rails soon at the [=LaFarges=] home, with nobody involved taking any notes, following plans or having a real idea of their tasks, and Nim barely learning any word.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The experiment goes off the rails soon at the [=LaFarges=] [=LaFarge=] home, with nobody involved taking any notes, following plans early plans, or having a real idea of their individual tasks, and Nim barely learning any a word.
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* TheEighties: Roughly coincident with the time Nim is held in solitary at Black Beauty, during which he destroyed two TV sets given to him in an attempt to entertain him. The doc reenacts one of these with the TV showing a speech by UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan.
* TheNineties: Trully the best years of Nim's life, where he was allowed to just be a chimp at Black Beauty, have a mate and join a troop without serving as a test subject.
* TheNineties: Trully the best years of Nim's life, where he was allowed to just be a chimp at Black Beauty, have a mate and join a troop without serving as a test subject.
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* TheSeventies: The decade of Nim's birth (1975) and the language project.
* TheEighties:Roughly coincident Coinciding with the time Nim is held in solitary at the Black Beauty, during which Beauty Ranch purchased Nim from LEMSIP. Held in solitary, he destroyed two TV sets that were given to him in an attempt to entertain him. The doc reenacts one of these with the TV showing a speech by UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan.
* TheNineties: Trully the best years of Nim's life, where he was allowed to just be a chimp at Black Beauty, have a mate and join a troop without serving as a test subject. He died in 2000.
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* TheNineties: Trully the best years of Nim's life, where he was allowed to just be a chimp at Black Beauty, have a mate and join a troop without serving as a test subject. He died in 2000.
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* TheStoner: After the students at IPS introduce Nim to weed, he signs "stone smoke now" to ask for some.
* TeacherStudentRomance: Herbert had a relationship with both of Nim's "mothers" while they were his students - Stephanie before the project, Laura Ann during it.
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A 2011 {{documentary}} film by James Marsh (Director of ''Film/ManOnWire'') that tells the story of Neam "Nim" Chimpsky, a chimpanzee RaisedByHumans in the 1970s as part of an experiment to (''de jure'') test if he could learn to communicate like a human if treated as a human child fom birth.
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A 2011 {{documentary}} film by James Marsh (Director of ''Film/ManOnWire'') that tells the story of Neam "Nim" Chimpsky, a chimpanzee RaisedByHumans in the 1970s as part of an experiment to (''de jure'') test see if he could learn to communicate like a human if treated as a human child fom birth.
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** Stephanie's random bout of "sexual experimentation" with Nim, which she seemingly decided on unilaterally and would have landed her a charge for molestation if he was human.
** Herbert visits Nim after one year in the IPS. Nim recognizes and is visibly happy to see him, likely because he thinks he is going back home. But it is just a photo op for the press, Herbert leaves to never come back, and when Nim is sold to LEMSIP he doesn't lift a finger to stop it. Put together with all the times Herbert moved Nim around without telling him or allowing him to say bye to people and places he interacted with daily, and it either shows that Herbert never treated Nim like a human child, self-defeating the supposed basis of the experiment; or that his very idea of how to raise a human child is disturbing.
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* ParentalAbandonment: A constant theme. Nim is taken from his mother's arms soon after birth, and later from any women filling for such role without warning or time to make himself to the idea. The times he goes most berserk all have to do with instances of abandonment.
