Project Nim is the new documentary about a chimpanzee raised in a human household as part of an experiment to see if chimps could learn language. Director James Marsh and two of the people who cared for Nim talk with Terry Gross about the controversial study.
I've seen the trailer for Rise of the Planet of the Apes like 45 times in the last week and it actually looks pretty good. I don't really like any movies dealing with animals being neglected and shit, so I'm already a little sad for the ape just by watching the trailer. I'm banking on him fucking shit up and smashing human skulls all over the place, which would balance out him being locked in some cage. Anyway, my buddy told me about this documentary called "Project Nim" last week, which, I guess, could be like the true version of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". The article from npr.org about it pretty much sums up the whole story but the actual documentary looks cool none the less One of the most interesting things about the doc is that the "experiment" was done 30 years ago or so. Why are people still trying to domesticate primates and shit today even though we've seen it not work out in the past? I guess yeah, times are different, probably be easier to do now with science ahead 30 years. but you know what hasn't change in like 30 zillion years? their wild animal instinct. you can try and raise them all you want, but eventually they know they don't belong in overalls, walking around park with swings and slides and jungle gyms. they need to be in ACTUAL jungles, braiding their clan member's back hair or whatever they do, sleeping in canopies. Once they start to figure where they belong, faces are probably gonna get ripped off
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