Photo: Chimps mourn at burial of fellow primate

Posted by netizen on October 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

This extraordinary photograph from the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine is getting lots of attention this week. The picture, taken at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Centre in Cameroon, shows more than a dozen apes gazing on as the body of one of their own is wheeled past them. Dorothy, a female chimpanzee in her late 40s, died of heart failure, and her death seemed to have left her fellow primates stricken by grief. Monica Szczupider, an employee who took the photograph, said:... 

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