H.S. Terrace, in his article ‘How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind,’ quotes Nim’s longest sentence as the 16-word-long ‘Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.’
After sitting in with the sea lions of The Wharf I came to two conclusions: one, that sea lions do not possess language, and two, my eight-to-twelve hours of observation would have been much improved with a thermos of the Buena Vista’s excellent Irish Coffee.