Macaque monkey steals camera and takes self portrait

Award-​​winning pho­tog­ra­pher David Slater was vis­it­ing park in North Sulawesi, Indone­sia when a male Crested Black Macaque mon­key took his unat­tended cam­era and started snap­ping away. Sounds highly unlikely doesn’t it? Well, shove your skep­ti­cism aside and enjoy the two pho­tos below which were appar­ently taken by the Macaque out of hun­dreds that were taken dur­ing the wild king­dom bout of self reflec­tion. ..more  Here is a link to many more pictures

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