We have more things in common with the wildlife community (especially monkeys) than we think. Take this video below, for example. You will definitely cry while watching it, just like the monkeys featured in it. Want to bet?

There is this popular BBC show called “Spy In The Wild” with a simple, yet brilliant, idea. The producers put an advanced camera equipment inside of a robot-ish animal to take a look at the wildlife community from the insider’s perspective. This is exactly what happened in the video below, filmed in Rajasthan, India, which both upset and moved millions of viewers.

The tribe of Langurs, a group of Old World monkeys, initially got to know the infiltrated robot monkey better. After the baby “monkey” finds a babysitter, disaster strikes when it falls out of a tree and accidentally “dies.” The hidden camera captured all the details of how monkeys mourn and what kinds of concern an injured baby can raise.

Analyzing the animalistic behavior when animals experience a significant, or even a life changing event, does not only help us understand more about them. It can also help researchers get to know more about us as well and track down the similarities (and the differences) between the human and the animal kingdom. Especially when the research has to do with monkeys, our closest relatives who live a lot like us.

They know how friendship works, they have enemies, they suffer from stress, and they feel attached to their mothers as well. Apparently, the also go through a grieving process after a loss.