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Nim's Island

Wendy Orr

A girl. An iguana. An island. And e-mail. Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad sails off to study plankton for three days, leaving her alone on their...

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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

It was mentioned as a book written by Herbert Terrace in 1979, detailing his research and conclusions on Nim Chimpsky and the study of ape language.

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Herb wrote in his 1979 book Nim, the regularities in our corpus that were noted before Nim returned to Oklahoma gave me reason to believe that Nim was creating primitive sentences

— Episode: 128 - Nim The Chimp (Reverse)

Episode: 128 - Nim The Chimp (Reverse)

It was mentioned as a book written by Herbert Terrace in 1979, detailing his research and conclusions on Nim Chimpsky and the study of ape language.

"

Herb wrote in his 1979 book Nim, the regularities in our corpus that were noted before Nim returned to Oklahoma gave me reason to believe that Nim was creating primitive sentences

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