The 54-year-old maintenance worker， Mario， whos suffering from a terminal cancer， asked that his hospital bed be wheeled into the giraffe enclosure at Rotterdams Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo. In a heartbreaking scene， one of the giraffes approached the man， and appeared to give him a kiss goodbye.

“These animals recognised him， and felt that things arent going well with him，” Kees Veldboer， founder of the Ambulance Wish Foundation—which transported Mario to the zoo—told Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. “It was a very special moment. You saw him beaming.”

Mario， whos mentally disabled， then asked for a moment to say goodbye to his colleagues at the zoo， where he spent the vast majority of his adult life.

“It was very nice that we were able to work on the last wish of this man，” Mr Veldboer said.

动物园一名54岁的清洁人员马里奥因癌症晚期即将离世。在病危之际，他要求医院的工作人员将他的病床推到鹿特丹动物园的长颈鹿饲养地。结果发生了感人的一刻，一只长颈鹿走到他的病床前，似乎给了他一个告别之吻。

“这些动物们认得他，而且感觉到了他的情况很糟糕，”“希望救护车基金会”的创始人Kees Veldboer在接受荷兰《共同日报》的采访时表示，正是他将马里奥送到动物园。“这是非常特别的一刻。你可以看出他很幸福。”

大脑已经不能正常工作的马里奥，接着和他动物园的同事一一道别。在这里他度过了成年生活的大部分时间。

Veldboer先生说：“能够满足马里奥最后的愿望，我们真的很开心。”