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Losing a parent can be one of the most tragic experiences of a person's life. As photographer Phil Moore shows, this feeling of deep sadness is not exclusive to humans.
For this mountain gorilla who's mother was killed poachers, the pain is all too real. In an emotional display of mourning, the dismayed gorilla holds onto park ranger Patrick Karabaranga for support.
Captured in July 2012 at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, this photograph documents the gorilla's capacity to express loss and Karabaranga's compassion for an individual of another species: a much needed skill in a world where human activity increasingly encroaches upon the lives of wild gorillas.
https://www.thedodo.com/gorilla-seeks-comfort-1355648291.html
Its an amazing photo.., captures so much.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I love the interaction between human and gorilla here. It's beautiful...
wordpix
(18,652 posts)I despise poachers but mostly they are poor people wanting to make a living, kill/snare animals for food, etc. Help the poor and we help gorillas. But many of us are tapped out while the 1% spends lavishly on $30 million NYC apartments and 5 homes.
theaocp
(4,244 posts)It's why I run an animal rescue. When they experience loss, I can offer solace.
Snobblevitch
(1,958 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)all at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
madokie
(51,076 posts)What a wonderful and beautiful world this could be if man would only allow it to be
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)And it may very well come to that.
We have to be the most self destructive life form that ever existed.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The drive of life is to make more life, and as a matter of course, an organism must exploit its environment to that end. Left alone, self-extinction is guaranteed. However, foir most organisms there is competition, predation, disease, regular famine, etc, all sorts of environmental factors limiting eternal growth.
Humans have largely freed ourselves from these limits. we're acting like rabbits on a planet made of spinach with no foxes in sight.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)?????
yardwork
(61,700 posts)spooky3
(34,467 posts)I really don't get your point.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)After I've removed their feet and hands while they bleed out on the jungle floor, oh yes. Plenty of sympathy for the environment too, the ants might get indigestion.
there's your sympathy for a murderer.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Poachers must be desperate for money to kill their nation's natural treasures. Perhaps if they had jobs that paid enough to care for their families they wouldn't.
Congo has been ripped by bigger poachers, including King Leopold of Belgium and Allen Dulles of War Inc.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)treat the symptoms than the disease. Having said that, I think poachers should be prosecuted to full extent of the law.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Desperate people in the region need bush meat. There is little if any viable authority to prevent poaching. Very sad. Even in countries without military conflict, other big animals and expanding human populations come into conflict. Some humans are killed and crops destroyed, but the animals are the biggest losers.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Plenty of people are in desperate places.
Only the callous see cruelty and theft of others goods or even their life itself as an option.
There are people that would slit your life for the five dollars in your pocket.
That is the mindset of the poacher.
No. I have no sympathy for the poacher.
7962
(11,841 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)the Tutsi with the Interahamwe butchers, Bosniaks and Serbs, Jews and Germans; Central American activists say that just as important as unearthing cemeteries are getting that phone call from the past generalissimo begging for a human-rights investigation because his own men are now bombing his carport
plus there's always issues of poverty and land disputes
but also, no
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)for THAT I feel compassion but for their illegal poaching, no
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)successful, but I think we should strive to be empathetic and humane in all instances.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)I love how the man is reaching under and rubbing the belly
That is THE LAST Male White Rhino. btw
Article
http://higherperspectives.com/last-white-rhino/
Omaha Steve
(99,700 posts)K&R!
OS
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)who witness man's stupidity, greed and cruelty more than most.
Thank you for this post. It is an amazing photo.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Anyone who doesn't think animals, especially the primates, can have feelings isn't paying attention.
FourScore
(9,704 posts)mcar
(42,372 posts)What an amazing photo!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)what an incredibly moving photo. I have nothing but contempt for the people that murder such beautiful creatures, and sincerely hope the worst for them.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)brer cat
(24,592 posts)Patrick Karabaranga's compassion is almost breathtaking. He is offering to help carry a terrible burden for the gorilla, and his heart seems broken also.
K&R
Mosby
(16,342 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)I know that when Cookie dies, as much as Connie likes to pretend she hates her brother, or at least dislikes him heavily... we will have to do that as well. (And us, we will be crying too)
Uncle Joe
(58,405 posts)Thanks for the thread, milestogo.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Would be a powerful National Geographic pic as well.