The mother who cannot say goodbye to her dead child: Tragic gorilla cannot bear to be separated from her baby a week after it died… and still tries to wake her up

Shira the gorilla lost her one-week-old daughter at Frankfurt Zoo

She could be seen frantically pacing in her cage, holding the dead baby

Keepers have yet to retrieve the body as she refuses to realise it is dead

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