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A heartbroken elephant walked over 25KM to attend its keeper’s funeral and say its last goodbyes to him. 

The huge animal walked beside its keeper’s son for two hours to visit his body outside his home in Kerala, India.

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The keeper, Konnakkad Damodaran Nair, 74,  who was fighting cancer, passed away on June 3rd and as per his last wish, family members and other elephant riders brought Brahmadathan the elephant to see his body.

“Brahmadathan touched the body of Damodaran Nair with his trunk and then raised his trunk and lowered it and was indeed paying his last respects to the departed elephant rider. This led to many breaking down and were moved with tears rolling down their cheeks. It was one of the most emotional  moments one could witness,” Rajesh Palattu, one of the funeral attendees, told the media.

A video of this has now gone viral on social media.

Damodaran has been an elephant rider for the past 60 years and was also a renowned elephant trainer. 

According to Rajesh and other elephant lovers in Kottayam and nearby places, the duo of Damodaran Nair and Brahmadathan were inseparable and the deceased treated him like his own son.

This is so sad!

Info via India Today 

By Thineshkan