The startling images which show how chimpanzees mourn their dead just like humans

[irishspirit]

A mother's grief: The startling images which show how chimpanzees mourn their dead just like humans

Chimpanzees appear to mourn their dead infants just like humans, scientists have discovered.
Chimpanzee mothers establish close physical relationships with their young, carrying them for up to two years and nursing them until they are six.

But now scientists have filmed how one chimpanzee mother, whose 16-month-old infant died, apparently begins the grieving process.
It’s the latest evidence highlighting just how similar chimps and other great apes are to humans.

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Grieving process: A chimpanzee mother tenderly lays her dead 16-month-old infant on the ground after carrying the body for more than 24 hours. Scientists filmed this heartbreaking footage in Chimfunshi, Zambia


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he ape continued to carry the body for more than 24 hours before tenderly laying on the ground. Then from a short distance she watched over her child.
Periodically she returns to the body and touches the face and neck with her fingers to establish it was dead.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcJPaHFbsc0&feature=player_embedded

[irishspirit]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_XFhTym6WY&feature=player_embedded

add this to the collection and one really must think.

[Icecold]

I have never doubted that this is a norm. It is only blind humans that cannot see.

[JoshERTW]

Chimpanzee habitats are being decimated by palm oil farmers. Don't have a link but I listened to a talk by a zoo-keeper this past summer. Palm oil (and palm kernel oil) is in most of the sweets like chocolate bars (the worst culprits, its in 90%) and other candies and confections like skittles. Its also in a lot of salty snacks like Crispers and other crackers and chips.

I've been boycotting those things ever since hearing that talk and watching those amazing creatures do their thing. Always read the label.

[Hughe]

One of my favorite movies is 'March of the Penguins.'
Female penguin which lost its chick was try to steal other chick.
Other females rush in and protected the chick being stolen from its mother.

I do believe in most animals possess feeling and consciousness like human does.

[syrwong]

I was taught as a child that animals didn't have 'higher' emotions. This is an example of false beliefs we were fed early in life. Throw away the belief that we are so much superior than other species, then we are just one of the myriad varieties of equal inhabitants invited to live here by mother Earth. (Aren't we are told that we are not even indigenous?). Then we don't have the right to annihilate other species and destroy the environment as we have been doing. If there is going to be a calamity to reduce human population, it would be just a balancing act of nature/Earth.