Retirement and Death
When Terrace ended the experiment, Nim was transferred back to the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, who later sold him to the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine and Surgery in Primates, a pharmaceutical animal testing laboratory managed by NYU. After efforts to free him, Nim was purchased by the Black Beauty Ranch, operated by The Fund for Animals, the group led by Cleveland Amory, in Texas. Nim died at the age of 26 from a heart attack.
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