As the heroine of “Nim’s Island,” Abigail Breslin embodies a great kid fantasy — she’s smart, courageous, independent and she lives on a tropical island with her doting father (Gerard Butler) and a ...

Nim’s Island is the latest so-so effort from Walden Media. Like most of their films, it is based on a children’s book, and like many of their films, it is directed by a first-time feature-film ...

To conduct the study, baby Nim is taken from his mother and given to Stephanie LaFarge, a former psychology student of Dr. Terrace’s who is already raising several children of her own on the Upper ...

Film director James Marsh described his Oscar-winning documentary Man on Wire as a "heist" film. His new documentary, Project Nim, is a heist film too. It's about a chimpanzee that was taken away from ...

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Perhaps Herbert ...

In the early 1970s, Columbia University psychology professor Herbert Terrace speculated that if a chimpanzee were raised like a human child in a human home and taught sign language — because chimps ...

Humans are often thought to be the only animals capable of language. But it’s difficult to prove a negative like this because we’ll never definitively know the subjective interior monologues of other ...

With British documentary maker James Marsh's often wild mix of genuine footage and re-creations, in lesser hands his movies could easily slip into something approaching an episode of Cops. But ...