The Dark Side of Science: The Sad Story of The Ape Language Experiment 1973 (Short Documentary)

In 1973 an experiment began in which a male Chimpanzee was raised as a human as part of a language study.

The study mirrors the Donald And Gua experiment very closely.......

"Nim" Chimpsky (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee and the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition at Columbia University. The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace with the linguistic analysis headed up by psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Within the context of a scientific study, Chimpsky was named as a pun on linguist Noam Chomsky, who posits that humans are "wired" to develop language."

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[henryturnerjr]

Sounds like the professor was using the experiment as the world's longest and most expensive way to hook up with college girls.

[nerdocalypse]

hooman: he cant make complex signs...
ape: wheres the weed at?

[stuffedninja]

You just casually dropping “at some point he was introduced to weed” got a big belly laugh out of me.

[capysarah]

"Lacking the required social skills, Nim became isolated and depressed"

He just like me for real

[ThrawnFett]

I love that the only actual documentable evidence that Nim learned any concepts whatsoever was that he made the connection that joints got him high. Therefore, He would like a joint please. And the stoner actually gave it to him and formed a lifelong bond over it lol

[HarryPrimate]

The story starts with a chimpanzee being placed with a family that may not have had any real experience with chimps and wasn’t very good at sign language. And then it kinda went downhill from there.

[Nylak-Otter]

According to their criteria, my dog is closer to acquiring human language than that poor chimp, and he actually enjoys attempting it.

[spacejasontodd]

Similar opinion has been reached about Koko the Gorilla, she was either trained to sign specific sentences or signed whatever to gain treats. But her handler couldn't be convinced otherwise and continued to push the narrative as such.

[Malikav]

Nim's first combination of signs was "But I did eat breakfast yesterday."

[Susie_Floozie]

I run an ongoing interspecies experiment with my pet chickens. With constant interaction over four years, I've found they've changed in superficial ways, while oddly, I've become more birdlike in surprising ways. The real eye-opener came as I was strolling in the yard yapping with one of my hens, when I realized the professorial habit I'd acquired of holding my hands behind me was simply a postural echo of tucking my wings back as my hen did! It came as a shock to me, and when I reacted with a "What the hell--?!!", my little hen let out a cascade of mutters that sounded like a rude laugh at my expense. The score so far: Apes, zero....and Birds, for the WIN!

[TroubleToby]

"...and, also, another lover of his."
😂🤣😂 This guy would definitely be an HR nightmare today. I was waiting to find out he'd taken one of the chimps as a lover! (Find out the chimp definitely knew the sign for, "It's not you, it's me.") 😂🤣😂

[basicbits]

I think we undervalue the fact that Nim Chimpsky was 100% successful at soliciting a random guy for a toke.

[mprojekt]

The worker who shared cannabis with Nim seems to have been one of the few rays of sunshine in his life.

[MSinistrari]

The assorted animal language studies from the 60s-70s are very surreal. The one with dolphins was pretty messed up.

[vidyastuff]

Can barely make humans out of humans anymore.

[nerdygoth]

Ooh, weird science! (Weird in this instance being unethical and horrendous). Thank you for the diverse content every week.

Though I'm a bit sad the chimp's response to "Say something" wasn't "Balls".

[dominique]

he really named the chimp after his mentor’s critic 😂 academia can be so unserious

[ClimateScepticSceptic-ubrg]

The confusion, obstinacy and muddled thinking on both sides of this debate come across strongly from your video. The jury is still out as to whether humans have a hard wired language facility, as opposed to general intellectual abilities that are well suited to the development of language. But it is clear that linguists and primatologists have a most strongly developed arrogance faculty.

[pheasantplucker]

Ok, your animation of a "drawback" made me laugh waaay more than it should have. Well done!

[craftymagpie]

Yet another episode of “Why We Need Ethics Committees “.