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A man who recently lost his iPhone would never have guessed it was a monkey business.
When Zackrydz Rodzi couldn’t find his phone after searching his entire home in Johor, Malaysia, he thought someone had stolen it while he was sleeping on Friday (September 11) night.
However, there were no signs of a break-in. And if his phone was stolen, the 20-year-old student mused, “Why would the thief leave the casing under the bed and run off with the phone?”
Zackrydz continued his search, using the Find My iPhone app (but it was offline) and calling his phone in hopes of hearing it ring.
His efforts were rewarded the next day after he heard a ringtone coming from a jungle near his home.
He found his phone muddy under a palm tree.
Curious about what had happened to the phone, Zackrydz opened the camera roll and found the ‘culprit’, a monkey, looking directly at him.
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— zack (@Zackrydz) September 13, 2020
Amused by what he discovered, he shared the images on a Twitter thread on Sunday (September 13).
It is not clear how the monkey got his hands on the phone, but it is very likely that he took the photos while playing with the device.
As well as showing a keen eye for photography in some shots of the jungle foliage, the monkey was also unconsciously filmed trying to eat the phone.
“I don’t know if there was a monkey living in my lodging area, but damn monkey, you’ve made my life miserable for the last few days,” he said.
Zackrydz also tried to lure the ‘thief’ with another phone, but it didn’t show up.
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This is apparently not the first time that the mischievous primate has done this, as he later learned that he had stolen his neighbors’ mobile phones before.
Hopefully this won’t be the start of another legal fight over the image copyright.
In 2011, a monkey in Indonesia took a selfie with a wildlife photographer’s camera. With the macaque sporting a wide grin on its face, the photo soon became an internet sensation.
However, animal rights group PETA filed a lawsuit on behalf of the monkey, accusing the photographer of copyright infringement.
Seven years later, a United States court ruled that the macaque did not own the copyright to the image.
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