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Final farewell: The heartbreaking moment a giraffe gives dying zoo worker a kiss
This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo.The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who has 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 then approached the man, known only as Mario, and gave him a tender 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.‘(It was) a very special moment. You saw him beaming.’
Mario, who's mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.
(Last goodbyes: Mario, who is mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life)
This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo.The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who has 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 then approached the man, known only as Mario, and gave him a tender 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.‘(It was) a very special moment. You saw him beaming.’
Mario, who's mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.
(Last goodbyes: Mario, who is mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo, where he spent the vast majority of his adult life)
