Heartbreaking moment dying zookeeper is wheeled in his hospital bed to say a final farewell to the animals he cared for

Heartbreaking moment dying zookeeper is wheeled in his hospital bed to say a final farewell to the animals he cared for

The 54-year-old maintenance worker, who's suffering from terminal cancer, asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdam's Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. In heartbreaking scenes, one of the giraffes then approached the man, known only as Mario, and gave him a kiss goodbye. Mario, who is mentally disabled, then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo (left), where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.