# Simian Self-Portrait of the Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/587926>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 5, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/587926 "2011-07-05T19:35:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/587926/1 "2011-07-05T19:35:00Z")

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From [The Daily What](http://thedailywh.at/2011/07/05/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/)

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> A crested black macaque snapped a pic of itself with a camera belonging to award-winning photographer David Slater, which was temporarily left unattended at a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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> “He must have taken hundreds of pictures by the time I got my camera back, but not very many were in focus,” said Slater. “He obviously hadn’t worked that out yet.
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> I wish I could have stayed longer as he probably would have taken a full family album.”

See picture at above link or a couple more at [The Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011051/Black-macaque-takes-self-portrait-Monkey-borrows-photographers-camera.html#ixzz1RDmzz8ae)

He takes a better self picture than I have ever done. 😃

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**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/587926/2 "2011-07-05T19:50:47Z")

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Oddly enough, after he took this picture he uploaded it as his profile pic on Facebook, too.

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**Author:** ![I\_Know\_Nothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f04885/32.png) [@I\_Know\_Nothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Know_Nothing)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simian-self-portrait-of-the-day/587926/3 "2011-07-05T20:01:02Z")

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Why am I laughing so damn hard!!!

I assumed it was a fake until I read the part about him(the monkey) taking hundreds of pictures.