“Elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. They refuse to eat and will lay down, shedding tears until they starve to death. They refuse all human help.”
officerofmonkeyproblems: life: Woman sitting with her pet ocelot having tea at a Bois de Boulogne cafe, Paris, 1963. See more photos here. (Alfred Eisenstaedt—TIme & Life Pictures/Getty Images) That’s a cheetah, not an ocelot, btw. What a terrific photo!
animallery: Baby (by Masashi Mochida)
ethereo: The Gibbon by toon_ee on Flickr.
animalkingd0m: All Dressed Up by Debbie Tubridy
100leaguesunderthesea: 071206_Cayman-98-12x18.jpg by JenFu