Many years ago, Princeton professor Augustine Fuentes was part of a team of researchers studying macaque monkeys living on the rock of Gibraltar.

A limestone mountain at the southern tip of Spain, where sheer cliffs drop into the sea.

The terrain was too rugged for the researchers to follow the nimble macaques around, so they

fitted some of the monkeys with tiny cameras that would capture footage from their point

of view.

But when the researchers recovered the cameras, they found something they didn't expect.

As we're watching the footage from her perspective, we're seeing what she's seeing. She goes over the side of this cliff and is down on these rocks where we could never follow.

And there's just this breathtaking vista from the southern part of the Rock of Gibraltar across the Straits of Gibraltar to Africa, right?

It's this beautiful view. And she stops.

And we're like, oh my God, what a great view.

And she's just hanging out looking at it.

And then she shifts slightly and frames probably the most beautiful image I've ever seen

across the Strait of Gibraltar with Morocco with Africa and the mountains of Africa

in the in the distance.

It is absolutely stunning and then she

just sits there and watches takes it all in she doesn't nod off because the camera would move if

she closed her eyes or moved down with her neck she just checks it out and we were all blown away

it was a transcendent moment of beauty, and we shared it with that monkey.

One of the things that is deep, deep in our history is this ability to experience awe,

this moment of knowing that there's more than just you in the world.

We can't know exactly what that monkey was thinking,

but that moment feels undeniably familiar.

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