By Staff Reporter (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Mar 28, 2014 01:43 AM EDT

A giraffe from the Rotterdam zoo proves that not only human beings are sensitive to someone's suffering.

The last wish of 54 year-old Mario, who suffers terminal cancer, was saying goodbye to the animals he had been taking care of for years at a zoo in the Netherlands. With some help from the volunteers, the man was moved all over the zoo, making a special stop at the giraffes area.

One of them recognized him, came near and kissed him goodbye touching the hearts of everyone who witnessed it. Take a look at this moving video: