chimps show "grief"


	chimps show "grief"

boozich

10-28-2009 3:15 PM

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10-28-2009 3:50 PM

debbyski

I remember watching a documentary on National Geographic once and a mother chimp held her dead baby in her arms and kissed it. It was so sad.

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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2009/10/chimps-show.html"><STRONG><BR />UNITED in what appears to be profound grief, more than a dozen chimpanzees stood in silence from their enclosure as the body of one of their own was wheeled past<BR /></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2009/10/chimps-show.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/muzich.blogspot.com/img/7005D57F-8446-4942-90A1-56C5F90A6EFB" alt="A chimp was mourned after dying in an African zoo" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2009/10/chimps-show.html"><P>When a chimp called Dorothy, in her late 40s, died of heart failure, her fellow apes seemed to be stricken by sorrow.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2009/10/chimps-show.html"><P>As they wrapped their arms around each other, Dorothy's keeper gave her an affectionate stroke on the head and settled her into the wheelbarrow that carried her to her grave.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://muzich.blogspot.com/2009/10/chimps-show.html"><BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/farewell-well-all-miss-you/story-e6frfhk6-1225792232848">Until recently, describing scenes like this in terms of human emotions such as grief would have been dismissed by scientists</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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