Reading this didn’t help me out of my state of funk *sigh*
Holding the lifeless body of her dead child like a rag doll, this female gorilla stares at the corpse in shock and bewilderment, unable to accept that her baby is dead.
Gana and Claudio (image from www.dailymail.co.uk)
It is a picture of pure grief. Inconsolable, hers is the raw pain of any mother who has lost a child.
While nature may indeed be red in tooth and claw, this moving image of Gana and her dead son Claudio seems to show that members of the animal kingdom can feel the pain of loss just as deeply as we humans.
Full story from here.
Danny Boy by James Galway & The Chieftains
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