Heart-warming pictures capture a heavily pregnant dog who appears to have taken in an orphaned baby monkey after its mother was poisoned.

The adorable sight of a baby monkey cuddling and playing with a dog is captured in these pictures, while the soon-to-be mother seems to be enjoying having him nearby. The 48-year-old photographer Prakash Badal took these heartwarming images while visiting Chakki Mor, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India, originally intending to capture photos of birds. These touching images show a pregnant dog seemingly adopting an orphaned baby monkey after its mother was poisoned.

The adorable sight of a baby monkey cuddling and playing with a dog, while the soon-to-be mother monkey seems to be enjoying their company, was captured by 48-year-old photographer Prakash Badal. The heartwarming moment was caught while he was visiting Chakki Mor, Solan in Himachal Pradesh, located in the northern region of India. Initially, Badal had planned to capture images of birds but couldn’t resist capturing this sweet interaction between the unlikely pair.

Initially planning to photograph birds, 48-year-old photographer Prakash Badal stumbled upon a heartwarming scene of a dog and monkey together. The baby monkey appeared to be no more than 10 days old when locals poisoned the adult monkeys in an attempt to protect their crops from destruction. Despite the tragic loss of its family, the baby monkey survived and was adopted by a dog. While conflicts between dogs and monkeys are common, a mother’s instinct to care for a helpless infant of any species is stronger. This touching display of interspecies love and compassion took place in Chakki Mor, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India.

This type of relationship serves as a lesson to humans who have become selfish and kill each other just because they belong to a different caste or religion. Photographer Prakash Badal, aged 48, stated that although conflicts sometimes arise between monkeys and dogs, a mother’s relationship is more important. He expressed that when a mother sees a small baby left alone with no one to care for it, maternal instinct takes over, prompting her to adopt the little one even if it belongs to a different species.