A male swallow's wife is fatally injured when she is hit by a car while flying low over a road. The devoted husband brings her food and cares for her with love. When he returns and finds she has died, he cries in grief and tries to move her body, which is unusual behavior for swallows. He remains sadly beside her body, saddened that she will never return to him. Millions of people were moved to tears after seeing photographs of the swallow mourning his mate.