born in a cage, raised in a zoo,
spent 24 years in a research laboratory.
Sheba is the daughter of Nim, a famous chimp
who learned sign language.
Like her father, she demonstrated remarkable intelligence,
learning to add, subtract, and paint.
Her story goes back to a "bold 1970s idea":
if chimps are so genetically and behaviourally close to humans, could they help us learn about ourselves?
Many scientists like Bob Ingersoll pursued that question
through a series of 'behavioural and social experiments'.
Others pursued it through invasive bio-medical research...
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