Project NIM

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Nim was not a human but a chimpanzee.  Could he really be like us? This question was always staying in me during the film. About Nim, he was separated from his mom when he was just two weeks old. What happened to Nim? , what did people do with this little chimp?

For this week's blog, I need to post my answers to the guided reflective questions. So here we are.

1. Was there a specific scene that got to you? Describe and explain how it moved you.

Nim moved to many places because of people to teach him and money to take care of him. The one place, which I remember it very clear, he was sold for medical research. I was heartbroken to see him putting in a cage and injecting some kind of medicine or whatever. The cage looked as if it were a prison. No one to take care of him or play with him; he was just a research object. I felt like he was looking at us saying..." Please stop it"... 

  2. What surprised you? Why do you think it caught you off guard?

When he actually started learning sign language and communicated by it with people. How amazing is that? I've never learned sign language, but he did it. Unfortunately, there weren't whole sentences, but he made people understand what he wanted, like, signing .... Nim, eat, banana. 

It's not human like us, but he communicated, and that caught me off guard.

3. What questions remain after the viewing? What feelings stayed with you after the film?

Was he the only chimpanzee in history that could communicate with sign language? 

The thought that stayed in me during the film was we shouldn't have taken Nim from his mother in the first place. He deserved to live better as a chimpanzee than being a research object. Therefore, he didn't have to experience all those ugly things. 

4. Why might we avoid including research in our summaries? What could go wrong?

I think research is written too factual and doesn't cover everything. It just emphasizes the main points and describes them throughout. 


Comments

  1. Lyndsey SteinbeckSeptember 3, 2021 at 9:47 PM

    I liked the way you described everything! The scene you mentioned about Nim being locked in a cage and tested on is so cruel. It is heartbreaking to see people treat an animal in a harmful way. It surprised me to read that Nim actually learned sign language. That is something I never thought could be possible. I also liked the questions you asked as well. I agree with you questioning if there are other chimpanzees that could communicate with sign language.

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  2. Elijah GottSeptember 6, 2021 at 5:55 PM

    Project Nim was one of the documentaries I considered watching, but ultimately did not. However. I am glad I was able to read your post about it, so that I could get a greater understanding of the film. It is amazing to think that animals other than humans are able to communicate in human languages. This makes me wonder if eventually chimps, or other animals, could evolve to be able to communicate more like humans, and maybe even speak the same languages. I think Project Nim seems like a very interesting documentary, and your post helps to confirm that.

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    1. Arvin Altankhundaga ENG 105September 7, 2021 at 2:59 PM

      Yeah, I always think that question as well. Could it be possible to chimps become like us cause we evolved from them and so why not, right? Anyway, thanks for your reply Elijah!

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  3. AnthonySeptember 8, 2021 at 8:25 AM

    I was interested in this documentary, and I'm glad I read your blog post because it gave a clear idea of what happened throughout the film. It was intriguing to hear what Nim had to go through. Like how he learned sign language, which shows that there are more signs of intelligent life that can communicate with us.

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