Roger Fouts

So Mark earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in psych at Central Washington University.

His undergraduate and master's research experience was supervised by Roger Fouts, also by Dan Fouts of the San Diego Chargers.

No, by Roger Fouts.

and was primarily focused on how sign language trained chimpanzees use pointing when interacting with humans.

That's cool work.

So I was signing up for classes, and I see these brochures for Friends of Washoe.

And I realized, wait, there's chimps on this campus? And I registered, and it was a winter term my first year.

I registered for... for a general psych and my professor was guy roger fouts and the chimps were like right above the classroom

great so nim developed aggression and they ended up having what did they end up doing with him

uh they had to send him to the Oklahoma Primate Center that was run by Roger Fouts, another person who studied language in chimps.

So the Oklahoma Primate Center was kind of like open cages where chimpanzees could roam freely.

And so I know we don't get too far into Nim, but was Nim able to do things other than just use signs? Was he able to tact and comment on things or...