Project Nim was a research study conducted in the 1970s meant to find out if a chimpanzee could learn to sign. The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a ...

Project Nim was a research study conducted in the 1970s meant to find out if a chimpanzee could learn to sign. The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a ...

Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. She was around 42 years old.

A chimpanzee whose ability to learn American Sign Language suggested but did not prove that the animal could engage in humanlike conversation died on Tuesday, The New York Times reported today ...

She spent her early years playing in the back yard of a small house in Reno learning American Sign Language from the scientists who adopted her, and by age 5 she had mastered enough signs to captur… ...

Dar, a Central Washington University chimpanzee who learned to use American Sign Language, died at the age of 36, officials said.

A world-famous chimpanzee believed to be the first animal to learn a human language died at Central Washington University in Ellensburg Tuesday night. Washoe, who was 42 years old, could use about ...

In the 1970s Washoe the chimp became the first non-human to learn to communicate using American sign language.

Washoe, a female chimpanzee said to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language, has died at the age of 42 at Central Washington University. Washoe, who first learned some American Sign ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who ...

Project Nim was a research study conducted in the 1970s meant to find out if a chimpanzee could learn to sign. The study's chimp –- named Nim Chimpsky -– lived in a Manhattan brownstone with a ...