Project Nim - A documentary on human behavior.

I'm not exactly sure how many documentaries I've watched dealing with animal cruelty. Far too many. Each time I become a little less connected with the world around me. I expected this movie to be different. I'd seen it advertised here and there and the cover was adorable. I was ill prepared to sit through another movie documenting a group of meat head scientists and half ass animal experts acting a fool in the name of idiocy.

I didn't start this post to point fingers or discuss who should or who shouldn't have gotten their faces ripped off. As far as I'm concerned they were all fair game because they all failed Nim. I'd like to think that as long as we've learned something from this than we haven't necessarily failed ourselves, but we haven't. In fact we'll probably do worse tomorrow. I'm not a very intelligent individual. I'll admit it. I've never been very good at retaining information and I think I've got a case of the ADHD's. However, even somebody as dim witted as myself knows of the two main contributing factors when it comes to healthy maturation. Nature and Nurture. It sounds so simple. That's because it is. Somebody write this down because I'm not looking to repeat myself.

Would you like to have a couple of signing chimps? Here's what you do. First things first you find yourself a couple of chimps. The younger the better. That should be no trouble. Apparently they are being euthanized everywhere. Now that you have your chimps you teach them sign language. Now that you have a couple of mature signing chimps you should have them mate. I don't care how you do it, just do it. Time passes. Now that you have a couple of signing chimps and a couple of non signing baby chimps you begin to teach the little ones sign language as well as encouraging the parent chimps to do the same. Do this for a couple of generations and we're on our way to planet of the apes. Shmucks.