Mandy Sanguigni
Dr. Park
SOC 101
Take-Home Essay Exam 1
Project Nim Imagine yourself trying to communicate with a baby chimpanzee. One might be scared, frustrated, or confused. One might teach sign language to be able to understand one another. On the other hand, one might adopt the creature and experiment on how to create a language both can comprehend. In this essay, I will discuss the purposes of the experiment demonstrated on the chimpanzee, Nim, in the film Project Nim, what researchers were hoping to discover, and some conclusions on the experiment. In the film, Project Nim, a chimpanzee named Nim was part of a psychological experiment. Nim was taken at an early age from his mother and placed into a daily life with a human family.
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Nim was exposed to different people and was even locked up for medical research prior to his final move to a ranch for rescued animals. The experiment may have better results if only just evaluation what a chimpanzee things due to the fact they are similar to humans. Terrace, the leader of the experiment, delivered Nim to several female students to see where Nim was more affected too. When Nim was still a baby LaFarge breast-fed for several months, which she believed was completely normal. Secondly, she gave him beer and marijuana to get him high. Thirdly, she started to feel attracted to Nim since she worked all the time around him. While watching, it was heartbreaking to watch an innocent chimp was around these caretakers that took advantage of him rather than work towards the main goal to be successful to comprehend a human language with an animal. In conclusion, I believe that the film “Project Nim” was interesting to watch and understand how some animals can understand a human language too with the proper guidance. Project Nim helped researchers experiment on breaking a language obstacle between animals and