Visitors to the Bioparc zoo in the Spanish city of Valencia have been greeted over the past three months with the moving sight of a grieving chimpanzee carrying around her dead baby.
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00:00For the past three months, visitors to the Biopark Zoo in Valencia, Spain, have witnessed
00:07a poignant scene, a grieving chimpanzee named Natalia carrying her deceased baby.
00:12The infant died when it was only a few days old, and Natalia has since clung to the lifeless
00:17body, seemingly unable to let go.
00:27While it is known that chimpanzees, like humans, mourn the loss of loved ones, the duration
00:33and intensity of Natalia's mourning is unusual.
00:36Nevertheless, Cazares said it must be respected, just as in humans.
00:57This is not the first loss for Natalia.
00:59She also lost an offspring in 2018, prompting the zoo to closely monitor her well-being
01:04this time.
01:06Chimpanzees are among Africa's most endangered primates, with a wild population of only 100,000
01:11to 200,000, threatened by hunting, habitat loss and disease.