Heart-warming images show a heavily pregnant dog who seems to have adopted an orphaned baby monkey after its mother was poisoned.
The infant monkey can be seen hugging and playing around the dog, as the mother-to-be seems to be enjoying having him around.
Photographer Prakash Badal 48, snapped the images while visiting Chakki Mor, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, northern India, initially planning to photograph birds.
Heart-warming footage shows a heavily pregnant dog who seems to have adopted an orphaned baby monkey after its mother was poisoned
The infant monkey can be seen hugging and playing around the dog, as the mother-to-be seems to be enjoying having him around
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Photographer Prakash Badal 48, snapped the images while visiting Chakki Mor, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, northern India
Photographer Prakash Badal, 48, had initially planned to photograph birds when he spotted the dog and the monkey together
He said: ‘The monkey infant seemed to be about 10 days old when locals poisoned the adult monkeys because it is said they are destroying their crops.
‘This infant survived and the dog adopted it.
He said: ‘The monkey infant seemed to be about 10 days old when locals poisoned the adult monkeys because it is said they are destroying their crops’
‘This infant survived and the dog adopted it,’ the photographer added
The monkey is pictured misbehaving while the pregnant dog tries to sleep, in Chakki Mor, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India
‘Although sometimes there are conflicts between monkeys and dogs, the relationship of a mother is more important.
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