Baby Monkey Mistaken for Dead and Mourned by Troop (FULL CLIP) | Spy In The Wild | BBC Earth

Join this troop of Langur monkeys as they grieve the fallen. Doesn't matter if it's an animatronic Spy Monkey; it was still part of the family. Now scrub up, it's time for the funeral.

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To discover just how like us animals really are, animatronic spy creatures infiltrate the animal world to explore their complex emotions. Spy Pup makes friends with a wild dog pack to investigate their maternal love and has a dangerous encounter with lions and elephants. Baby Spy Crocs discover the extraordinary devotion of a mother crocodile and take a rollercoaster ride inside her mouth as she carries her babies to water. Spy Egret and Spy Tortoise are nearly trampled by elephants as they film a newborn baby sharing the love of his caring family. Spy Monkey meets a troop of over 120 unruly langurs and finds out how teenage monkeys comically practise babysitting skills. Spy Prairie Dog witnesses the most enthusiastic kissers in the animal world. Spy Chick discovers the extraordinary devotion of hornbills as a mother is imprisoned for the sake of her brood. In Antarctica, Spy Adelie Penguin becomes entangled in the penguins' turbulent love life as they fight to steal pebbles to impress a fussy female. On the savannah, giraffes are filmed for the first time paying homage to an old giraffe that recently passed away. Spy Bush Baby meets some curious chimpanzees, and Spy Tortoise is adopted by a five-year-old and is taken on a wild ride through the jungle canopy before coming down to earth with a bump. In a thought-provoking scene a chimpanzee shows empathy as he finds an abandoned wildcat kitten and adopts it as his pet.

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[hotrodmercury]

the way she screams and tries to see if the baby is still alive is heart breaking

[muffintop]

So interesting how much like humans they are. Hugging and consoling each other, showing care and concern for the baby even though it's not theirs.

[mawaracomedy.]

They were having a great day till you came with the robot

[shamszaman]

After the funeral:

Monkey: so whose baby was that anyway?

Everyone:

[BothHands]

I've seen this before, but it's just as heart-wrenching the second time around. Especially when the other baby monkey comes and looks the spy monkey in the face

[RII_RII-km]

OK, so some people would say because people made the robot, they made these poor monkeys believe that a monkey died but there are reasons that it wasn't the humans' fault and why this was revolutionary

1. The monkey dropped the robot. The humans just made the robot but never intended for it to fall.
2. To see this kind of emotion that isn't our kind is beyond amazing because this proves that animals really have more human like feature than we thought.

[asifmetal]

damn.. they showed such close human emotion. its unbelievable

[dracodracarys]

On one hand, it's so beautiful and sad seeing how they display emotions and grief so amazingly similar to humans.

On the other hand: couldn't they tell it wasn't real? From the way it moves or the way it smells?

[shamszaman]

Spy Monkey *Dies*
other monkeys : He was a like a brother to me Ohh GOD he surely will be missed

[Korvo.]

When she went down and hugged it while crying out, my heart just broke

[smnoy]

"Today, we mourn this strange child that none of us can remember having."

[mutitapen]

You made them sad for no damn reason xD

[syriraqi]

How sad to witness that, I mean those monkeys showed a genuine sympathy towards the situation, how much that tells us about the beautiful side of life and the bitter side of death but without one or another we won't experience all of what we have seen in this incredible scene.

[Ely]

And no one got angry at the one that dropped it 😩😭 they're soo pure 😭

[maryrosekent]

I loved how the parents embraced their young to comfort and reassure them.

[savageboycharles]

How beautiful are Gods devine creatures .How blessed we are to capture such wonders of this species ...absolutely endearing cherished moments .thanks for sharing

[godsdaughter]

The elder is like: "does anyone know this young mans family?"

Troop:

Elder: his name at least?! so i can say a few words for his departed soul before the vultures come?"

[alessandrobozzi]

Just saw it on Italian TV; I and my girlfriend were bawling our eyes out - mankind's empathy is gone pretty much to hell lately, what with the rampant psychosis due to coronavirus, while monkeys manage to empathize with a surveillance camera enough to give it _a goddamn funeral._

[inukoinu.k]

someone: animals have no feelings.

this video and nature: I’m about to end this man’s whole career .

[ToddHowar.d]

And yet people could watch this and still say we didn’t evolve from monkeys/apes. It’s very clear we developed our wide emotional range as we evolved over time from the emotions monkeys show.