A baby monkey broke down in tears sitting next to the dead body of its mother that was knocked down by a speeding vehicle at a village near Elanthur on the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka National highway in India on Friday.
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Reports from India, said the sight of the baby monkey weeping over the carcass of its mother elicited sympathy from eyewitnesses.
It was also said that the villagers conducted the final rites of the mother monkey in the presence of police and forest officials while the baby monkey watched it from a distance.
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