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This is a music video for Bud Petal's song "The Ballad of the Chimp". It tells the true story of Nim Chimpsky, the chimp they tried to turn into a child (by teaching him sign-language). Bud Petal's album, "Turtledoves and Oatstraws", will be out late 2008. www.myspace.com/budpetal The photos are taken from "Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language" by Herbert S. Terrace (1987, Columbia University Press) and "Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human" by Elizabeth Hess (2008, Bantam Publishing)