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![Former researcher Bob Ingersoll on the chimp Nim Chimpsky: “He actually signed ‘stone smoke time now’ to us first. We were shocked. Although we were familiar with chimpanzees that did thing like drinking and smoke cigarettes and that sort of thing, I’d never had a chimpanzee request weed from me. That was an eye-opener.”
[complete interview with James Marsh, Ingersoll, and Jenny Lee here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lon2zhlbtO1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg "Former researcher Bob Ingersoll on the chimp Nim Chimpsky: “He actually signed ‘stone smoke time now’ to us first. We were shocked. Although we were familiar with chimpanzees that did thing like drinking and smoke cigarettes and that sort of thing, I’d never had a chimpanzee request weed from me. That was an eye-opener.”
[complete interview with James Marsh, Ingersoll, and Jenny Lee here]")
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Former researcher Bob Ingersoll on the chimp Nim Chimpsky: “He actually signed ‘stone smoke time now’ to us first. We were shocked. Although we were familiar with chimpanzees that did thing like drinking and smoke cigarettes and that sort of thing, I’d never had a chimpanzee request weed from me. That was an eye-opener.”
[complete interview with James Marsh, Ingersoll, and Jenny Lee here]
Project Nim (2011)
Tomorrow: director James Marsh and two of the people who helped raise Nim Chimpsky come on Fresh Air to talk about their documentary, Project Nim.
