Langur Monkeys Grieve Over Robot Monkey
Transcript
00:00 In Rajasthan, the temple langurs have taken Spy Monkey into the heart of the family.
00:07 But some are keen to take the budding relationship to the next level and are getting a little
00:15 too familiar.
00:20 One seems to want to babysit her.
00:27 But disaster strikes.
00:31 An injured baby is a cause for concern.
00:38 And this langur seems to believe she's died.
00:50 Something extraordinary happens.
00:57 The monkeys gather round the motionless spy creature as if it is a real baby.
01:06 They react just as they do when their own babies die.
01:13 A calm and contemplative mood descends on the colony.
01:20 there's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another.
01:28 Quite accidentally, our spy creature, the monkey, is taken in by a young monkey.
01:35 A calm and contemplative mood descends on the colony.
01:42 There's a sense of grief as well as empathy for one another.
01:54 Quite accidentally, our spy creature is at the centre of something extraordinary, capturing
02:01 emotions that have rarely been observed.
02:04 [MUSIC PLAYING]