• by Justin Thomas
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July 6, 2011 at 6:00 am

Recently, a nature photographer was taking pictures of some monkeys when one of them stole his camera. The Black Macaque (featured in the first photo below) then reportedly proceeded to snap a few photos of himself before the photographer managed to get his camera back. I don’t believe this story for a second. Have you seen the cameras that professional photographers use? A NASA scientist couldn’t figure out how to take a photo that good in such a short amount of time. That’s like coming home from work and discovering that your cat made a flyer for your birthday party and sent it out in a Facebook invite to all of your friends. It could happen, but would it? Regardless of whether the story is fake or not, the photographer did manage to capture a great photo of a smiling monkey, so in celebration of smiling monkeys everywhere we’ve decided to gather more smiling monkey photos from around the web.