Herbert Terrace called upon former graduate student Stephanie Lafarge, who studied psychoanalysis at Columbia University with Terrace. He wanted her to raise Nim as she would her own child, with new husband Wer Lafarge and their seven children. Stephanie had no knowledge …show more content…
Having been taking from his mother at such an early age, and ultimately exploited to his humanlike nature without regard to his primate nature. Dr. James Mahoney stated that there is no way to carry out research on animals and for it to be humane, which I completely agree with. Although, they did prove that Chimpanzees had the capacity for higher consciousness and language skills, the complete disregard for his quality of life at the end of the project made me very upset. Nim’s cognitive abilities were very impressive, and it’s quite amazing the amount of signs he was able to learn in the five years spent on the