This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who’d spent his entire adult life cleaning their enclosure at a Dutch zoo.
The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who’s suffering from a terminal cancer, asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam’s Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. In a heartbreaking scene, one of the giraffes approached the man, known only as Mario, and appeared to give him a kiss goodbye.
Heartbreaking: The touching moment a giraffe said goodbye to a terminally ill worker at a Dutch zoo
Special bond: The giraffe approached the man's hospital bed, and appeared to give the 54-year-old a kiss goodbye
‘These animals recognised him, and felt that (things aren’t) going well with him,’ Kees Veldboer, founder of the Ambulance Wish Foundation - which transported Mario to the zoo - told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad.
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