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Growing Up with a Chimp for a Brother

Jenny Lee on growing up with Nim the Chimp as a brother in 1970s New York. Her mother treated the infant chimpanzee as her other three children, but things turned sour when they were reunited when he was an adult.
The picture shows student teacher Joyce Butler of Columbia University showing Nim the sign for "drink". Credit: Project Nim.)

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