Heartbreaking moment baby monkey desperately tries to wake its dead mother after she is hit by a car in India
- Monkey hit by a car crossing a road in Uttar Pradesh, northern India
- Heartbreaking video shows its baby trying to wake her on the road
- The tiny baby monkey is seen crying over its mother's dead body
This is the heartbreaking moment a tiny baby monkey can be seen crying over its dead mother's body after she was hit by a car.
The adult monkey was knocked down while crossing the road between the towns of Bareilly and Budaun in Uttar Pradesh, northern India.
Video footage shows the inconsolable baby monkey screaming while hugging its dead mother, covered in her blood.
Tragic: Mother monkey was hit by a car in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, and her baby can be seen crying and screaming while covered in her blood
In a video, a man can be heard saying: 'The mother is dead, what to do with the baby'.
Another man replies: 'Leave her in the jungle some monkey may find it.'
The baby refused to let go of its mother and only moved when a passerby dragged the body out of the road.
Heartbreaking: Video shows the baby monkey refusing to leave its dead mother's side
A local said: 'A villager who also was on the spot later took it to be buried with last rites.
'Monkeys are considered to be in the shape of the monkey god Hanuman and any dead monkey is buried with religious rites.'
The baby monkey was rescued by the Uttar Pradesh government's forest department.
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