The amazing photo below shows a group of Chimpanzees at the
Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in eastern Cameroon lined up
solemnly near a fence after one of their fellow chimps died an is
taken away.
Chimpanzees are normally very noisy creatures, but after the
passing of one of their fellow chimps, an elderly female named
Dorothy, the entire group rushed over to the fence and watched in
silence as her body was buried. They sat there by the fence with
their hands on each others shoulders as if mourning and consoling
each other.
The photo was taken by Monica Szczupider, a worker at the rescue
center. She said Dorothy the chimp was well into her thirties when
she died of heart failure after being ill.
Szczupider said:
Quote:“This is a funeral shot. We were burying Dorothy. We brought
her in the wheelbarrow to let the others see.
“It was unbelievably emotional. We were all struck. Even the
employees, all of whom grew up as villagers potentially eating
apes, before they were a delicacy, were emotional.
“I think every last one of us was silenced by their silence.”
R.I.P. Dorothy.
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