Mourning Mom? Macaque Carries Daughter's Mummified Corpse for 4 Weeks
By Dan Robitzski, Live Science Staff Writer | September 27, 2017 06:42am ET
Mourning Mom? Macaque Carries Daughter's Mummified Corpse for 4 Weeks
For weeks after her daughter died, Evalyne continued grooming and caring for the corpse.
Loss and grief can make people do strange things, but that's nothing compared to our cousins in the animal kingdom. Recently, in a wildlife park in Italy, one macaque mother named Evalyne whose newborn died after just five days spent four weeks carrying around the infant's mummified remains.
https://www.livescience.com/60533-macaque-mom-carries-cannibalizes-mummified-infant.html
