在最终被释放到一个动物庇护中心前尼姆还遭受了其他不良待遇 — — 甚至差点在一次医学实验中感染肝炎。 它最终在2000年去世。
Nim suffered various other vicissitudes – and narrowly escaped being infected with hepatitis as part of a medical experiment – until he was eventually released to an animal sanctuary, where he died in 2000.