After This Young Monkey Got Hit by a Car, Monkey Strangers Comforted Him.

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Pipo retreated to a tree after being struck by a car, and continued to sit there after his group abandoned him.
Credit: Liz A. D. Campbell/Springer, the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses /by/4.0/)
▼ Even monkeysknow it's right to care for strangers in need. (Or maybe their parents just didn't teach the helpers about "stranger danger.")
In a new paper published in the July issue of the journal Primates, scientists document for the first time Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) fostering an older juvenile macaque — a stranger to them — after finding him lost and hurt on the side of the road days after he had been struck by a car inside a park in Morocco. The monkeys groomed and cared for the injured juvenile, named Pipo and almost 3 years old, and socialized with him until he was healed and ready to return to his own group.
The observation was surprising, study author Liz Campbell, a zoologist at the University of Oxford, wrote in the journal article, because "intergroup encounters at this [national park in Morocco] range from immediate withdrawal by one group to lengthy, sometimes aggressive, contests."
Researchers had never seen monkey  strangersgetting along like this before.
That was good news for Pipo. After a car struck him on March 20, 2018, Campbell wrote, he retreated to a nearby tree while other members of his home group looked on.
"Several group members displayed affiliation towards him, and a juvenile sat with him and groomed him as he appeared to be losing consciousness," she wrote. "At approximately 17:35 (1 hour before sunset), his group left for their sleeping trees, but Pipo was left behind in the tree."
The next day, Pipo was nowhere to be found, Campbell wrote, and she and her colleagues assumed he had died. But on March 22,  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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ajayjohri

Wow...Another reminder that deep down, our most inherent and basic emotion is goodness. Before intelligence sets in, that is.

Always amazing to come across such displays of surprising care in the animal world. I also recall a video wherein a tiger/lion chased a deer calf, but didn't really hurt or eat it...i think it realised that it was a baby so just fooled around and let it go.

themaskeditor

It is called Bhaichara, Same tendency exits with elephants and more more species.

asr335704

Showing kindness and caring for others is really beautiful. It become more beautiful when animals display such lovely emotions.