Photos of the mother who couldn't say goodbye to her dead child

These are the tragic photos of a gorilla called Shira
Frankfurt Zoo in Germany who lost her child only 1 week
after its birth. The Gorilla could be seen walking frantically
through her cage at, desperate for her dead baby to wake
up.
Grief is written all over her face as she carries her, cuddles
her and sometimes shakes her.
But her baby died after a week and she doesn't understand
why. At night she lays the dead gorilla across her stomach
and wakes up with the same perplexed look on her face
when her baby doesn't stir.
Zoo director Prof. Manfred Niekisch said; 'Last Thursday
she was OK in the morning but in the afternoon she
suddenly and without warning died. We have as yet no idea
what caused it.'
Eventually, she let go of the corpse of her baby and the
zookeepers took the body for autopsy.