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Neam "Nim" Chimpsky[1] (November 19, 1973 – March 10, 2000) was a chimpanzee and the subject of a study of animal language acquisition -- specificallly, the abilities of chimpanzees to learn a human language, American Sign Language (ASL). The project was led by Herbert S. Terrace of Columbia University with linguistic analysis by psycholinguist Thomas Bever. Chimpsky was named as a pun on linguist Noam Chomsky, who posited that humans are "wired" to develop language.[2] Nim was initially raised in the home of one of Terrace's former grad students, along with several human children.[1][3][4] But over the course of the study, Nim was shuttled between home locations and a revolving group of caregivers, mostly grad students.[3][5] When Nim was 5 and became too difficult to manage, he was returned to his owner at the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma.[6] After reviewing the results, Terrace concluded that Nim mimicked symbols of the American Sign Language from his teachers in order

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