"Say BANANAS!" Amazing "SELF PORTRAITS" by macaque monkeys!

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Macaque monkeys take self portraits July 10, 2011 "Say BANANAS!" Wow! Reading the newspaper this morning, the picture caught my eye, since the photo was amazing. First thought it might be a man-made costume for some movie. Then read, and so astonished. Genius, talented monkeys! First time seeing pics of this breed, but how smart and adorable they are! I hope the human photographer will bring back the pics to show them. I'll have to request some tutoring from this handsome, furry (monkey) photographer. I am not good at taking self portraits at all, and I could use some too! :o) [You have to click on the website to see the picture; wish we could paste images though.] ========================= http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/07/macaque_self-po.html English wildlife photographer David Slater left his camera unattended while working with a group of crested black macaque monkeys in Indonesia -- and one of them learned how to use it to take a series of portraits. The Daily Mail has the photos, including this amazingly great self-portrait by the monkey photographer: Slater thinks she was admiring her own reflection in the camera's lens. (Presumably, she'd never seen it before.) Another monkey, Slater explains, took "hundreds of pictures" while his friends posed together. It's not quite clear how much the monkeys understood what they were doing, of course, but the pictures speak for themselves. See more here.