A baby monkey that lost its mother in a road accident brought human passers-by to tears as it grieved its loss.
The young monkey wept sitting near its dead mother's body, after she was knocked down by a speeding vehicle in southern India on Friday.
"Losing a loved one will be painful for not just human beings. Animals too mourn. We saw the young monkey weeping over the carcass of its mother," K Saravanan, who witnessed the scene, told the Times of India.
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The baby monkey saw its mother being knocked down by a vehicle while she was crossing the road.
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The baby monkey tried to wake its mother and hugged her after rushing over to her.
It kept its ears on her chest as if checking her heartbeat. Soon it realised that the mother had died, and it started to weep.
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Police kept the baby monkey away from the corpse while villagers carried it to a local burial ground.
There they conducted final rites of the mother monkey along with police and forestry officials.
Villager G Sathyanarayanan said: "The baby monkey jumped from one tree to another tree and followed us when we carried the carcass."
This isn't the first example of a grieving animal we've seen here at TheLADbible, in fact if you're a good owner to your pet, it will never forget you.
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As proven by the loyal dog who refused to leave his owner's coffin and which now faithfully visits his grave every day.
Cesur was part of the guard of honour at the funeral of him owner Mehmet Ilhan, when he died aged 79.
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The black-and-tan pup stood solemnly by the side of Mehmet's coffin throughout the ceremony at the Central Mosque in Ohraneli, Turkey, before following it into the cemetery to watch him being buried.
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Mehmet's son Ali, who has adopted Cesur, said the pooch is struggling to adapt to life without his beloved master.
Ali said: "My father was paralysed for many years and adopted Cesur as a puppy two years ago to keep him company.
"He loved the dog and took very good care of him and I think Cesur is just sad because he is missing him.
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"He wouldn't move away from the coffin, not even an inch, at the funeral and then he followed us to the cemetery and waited until he had been buried.
"Nowadays he visits the grave every day because he can't seem to get used to the absence of my father."
Ali says he takes Cesur for a walk to the cemetery in north-western Turkey's Bursa Province, where he spends hours guarding his late owner's grave.
This isn't the only instance of an animal mourning it's owner's loss.
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A video showing a horse crying at his owner's funeral went viral last week.
The clip really knows how to stirrup the emotions; you can tell his owner was his mane man.
Wagner de Lima Figueiredo, died in Paraiba, north east Brazil and he and his horse had an especially close relationship. So much so that the horse was brought to his funeral.
During the video, Sereno the horse begins stamping his feet and whinnying loudly before placing his head on the coffin containing his owner.
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The owner was a semi-professional cowboy who died on New Year's Day in a motorbike accident.
A close friend, Francielio Limiera, told the Daily Mail: "It was an unbelievable thing to see the way the horse behaved. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't have believed it myself.
"As we brought the coffin out at the beginning of the funeral, [Sereno] sounded like he was crying and as if he recognised that his owner was finally leaving him. He pounded the ground with his hooves and kept on whinnying. It was very sad."
Some experts believe that horses can be aware of their owner's death and therefore mourn for them.
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