A Photo Which Shows that Grief Affects Us All
August 20, 2008 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Grief
I was touched by the story of a gorilla who lost her baby. You can read the story at the Mail Online where they publish this heart wrenching picture and say
“While nature may indeed be red in tooth and claw, this moving image of Gana and her dead son Claudio seems to show that members of the animal kingdom can feel the pain of loss just as deeply as we humans…For hours the distraught mother gently shook and stroked the child, vainly seeking to restore movement to his lolling head and limp arms. Visitors to the zoo openly wept as …read more
