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While a hundred monkeys sitting at a hundred typewriters have yet to write any Shakespeare, one Indonesian macaque with a camera turned out to be a pretty good wildlife photographer.
Shutterbug David J. Slater was trailing a group of endangered black macaques in a national park on the island of Sulawesi when he decided to let one of the monkeys try out his camera.
A real-life Curious George wound up taking “hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back,” apparently entranced by the sound of the shutter, Slater told the Daily Mail of London.
“Not very many were in focus,” Slater said, but as you can see here, some of the results are astonishing.