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 ...

Back in the 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky took part in a Columbia University research study called "Project Nim." Project Nim was led by Herbert Terrace, a psychologist at Columbia who was ...

Project Nim, a documentary film directed by James Marsh, is the story of scientist Herb Terrace and his experiment—initiated in December, 1973—to teach sign language to a chimpanzee named Nim. It is ...

It's a look, from the other side of the species, at a concept often explored -- think "Planet of the Apes" and many other perspectives. What if an animal, such as a chimpanzee, could communicate with ...

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 ...

Do any animals, other than humans, have the ability to learn language? What are the ethical implications of taking a creature, right after birth, from its mother in order to find out? And what is the ...

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After weaving an audacious high-wire stunt into an inspiring account of artistic endeavour in his Oscar-winning "Man on Wire," James Marsh again proves himself a ...

Could a chimpanzee raised from infancy by a human family bridge the gap between species--and change the way we think about the boundaries between animal and human? Here is the strange and moving ...

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PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - After weaving an audacious high-wire stunt into an inspiring account of artistic endeavor in his Oscar-winning "Man on Wire," James Marsh again proves himself a ...