Nim Chimpsky (Image: Harry Benson)
"Poor old Carolyn. Six of her previous babies have been taken away from her, and, as this film opens, men are coming to take her seventh. Her son, a chimpanzee named Nim, is two weeks old and is about to be transplanted from his birthplace at a primate research centre in Oklahoma into - wait for it - a large brownstone on the upper west side of Manhattan. There he will live with a human family and be raised as a human child.
Thus begins the stranger than fiction true story that's explored in James March's new documentary, Project Nim.
What on earth were they thinking of?"
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