This photo, and its accompanying article, originally published last week has been making its way around the internet via blog and email to hundreds of thousands of people ever since. 

 I don’t know how everyone else felt, but I was profouondly moved by  the mute sorrow of those respectful chimps watching the body of a beloved compatriot being carried to its final rest.  No funeral pomp, no eulogy, no ritual, could have said  it better. 

This is death at its most final and feeling at its most primal.  I identify with those chimps every time I look at the picture and I think of all those whom I have loved and lost in the course of my life.  Who says that only humans are capable of this kind of emotion? And if that is the case, who says we have the right to use our simian brothers and sisters as we do, for research, entertainment, and for food.

Look again at the picture.  This one is worth a milllion words.

Read the original article in the Mail Online