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Mother macaque days cradled in her arms her dead cub. It happened in the Tangkoko Reserve in Sulawesi, Indonesia. She gently pressed the cub to her and hit on the leg macaque male who tried to touch him.

Heartbreaking moment managed to capture wildlife photographer Andrew Uelmsli, later said that "looking at it was very hard." Mother and calf belong to the species of black crested macaques. Now the number of these animals is very low due to habitat loss and hunting for them.



The calf died just a few weeks after his birth. Mother macaque nursed already dead cub: sadly looked at him, clutching tightly to his chest, sniffing him. She even pushed rhesus male who was trying to touch the cubs and their sharp teeth bared.

A team of researchers from Oxford for the first time I saw this picture of about 11 in the morning. When I first saw Uelmsli rhesus mother, she sat hugging her cub and looking at him. She did not move for about 15 minutes. Sometimes she hugged him, combing fur. Scientists watched her for about an hour, but to look at it was incredibly difficult: it was a lost child's mother, and it does not matter what species it belongs. According Uelmsli when you see this, you know, like really small difference between us and them.





Macaque mother took care of the dead cub two days, and then finally let him go.





Tangka Reserve - is the main habitat of the black crested macaques. The main threat to this species are the people - in the monkeys are hunted for their meat, which is considered a delicacy in Indonesia, without which it can not do such great holidays like Christmas or Easter.





via factroom.ru