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Monkey's Family Welcomes Him Back With Hugs (Original Post)
catbyte
Jun 2019
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delisen
(6,046 posts)1. This was uplifting.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. Oh, how beautiful! Proof that animals love their families too!
I am so glad they are back together again.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)3. That's a lump-in-the-throat sweet!
💕
Rhiannon12866
(206,276 posts)4. Awwww! What a welcome!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)5. What surprised me was the apparent instant recognition from a distance.
They didn't even have to smell him over good and thoroughly inspect him up close.
Does this mean that some animals remember individual features long-term and recognize faces and other physical properties as individually unique like humans?
However, those that reacted so strongly may be his mother and a sibling.....
KY.......
Fla Dem
(23,785 posts)6. I've seen this one several times, but each time it leaves me with a lump in my throat.
The love and caring just oozes out of that video.