Monkey Business (In Many Ways)

This is a clip from a new documentary being shown on PBS about Nim, a chimp that was raised with a family, like a human, and taught sign language. Utterly fascinating especially when you add in Terry Gross' interview with several of the main characters in the film. Have a listen here.

I have to agree with Bob Ingersoll, one of Nim's dearest human friends, who says he is so grateful researchers now study chimps in the wild because he cannot condone studying chimps in captivity. Of course this is now and that was then. . .