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Gorilla cannot bear to be separated from her baby a week after it died...
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THESE are the tragic photos which prove the bonds of motherhood know no bounds.
A gorilla called Shira walks frantically through her cage at Frankfurt Zoo in Germany, desperate for her dead baby to wake up, Daily Mail reported.
Grief is etched on her face as she carries her, cuddles her and sometimes shakes her.
But her toddler died after a week and she cannot fathom why. At night she lays the dead gorilla across her stomach and wakes up with the same perplexed look on her face when her baby doesn't stir, the report said.
Zoo director Prof. Manfred Niekisch said; 'Last Thursday she was OK in the morning but in the afternoon she suddenly and without warning died. We have as yet no idea what caused it.'
Zookeepers intend to retrieve the dead infant when her ten-year-old mother finally lets go of the corpse for an autopsy.
Prof Niekisch said of her all-too-human reluctance to relinquish the baby: 'This is often the case with gorillas. The bond between mothers and their babies is particularly close.
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