This is completely what I like the most part of living-being one and all. This is simply sad yet beautiful that even an animal has some sense of life and love.
It’s a tear-jerker worthy
of Hollywood – and one of the first examples of compassionate care and grief in
a wild monkey. The alpha male of a group of snub-nosed monkeys and his dying partner
spent a final, tender hour together beneath the tree from which she had fallen
minutes earlier, cracking her head on a rock. Before she succumbed, he gently
touched and groomed her. And after she was dead he remained by her side for 5
minutes, touching her and pulling gently at her hand, as if to try and revive
her (for a full account of what happened, see “A monkey tends to his dying mate
– as it unfolded”, below). “The case we’ve reported is particularly important
because of the exclusively gentle nature
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