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  • Watch: An iPhone stealing monkey in India

    Watch: An iPhone stealing monkey in India

    A video of a monkey snatching an iPhone and running away has gone viral in India.

    Human encounters with monkeys incidents are common in India as a large number of the primates roam free in many states. While most incidents are peaceful, sometimes they bite humans or run away after snatching things from them.

    According to Indian media, a similar incident took place outside a temple in the city of Vrindavan in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the video of which is also going viral on social media.

    In the viral video, it can be seen that two monkeys are sitting in the temple premises and one of them is holding an iPhone stolen from a person who came to the temple. A group of people can be seen trying to take the iPhone from the monkey, throwing things at the it so that it throws the phone away.

    The hard work of the people paid off and the monkey threw away the iPhone, on which the people clapped.

  • Monkey steals money from man travelling in rickshaw

    Monkey steals money from man travelling in rickshaw

    A man in India was deprived of INR 100,000 (Rs229844.73) after a monkey went off with his money and threw it in the street.

    As per reports, a wild monkey snatched a wrapped towel with more than one lac [Indian] rupees from a traveler in an autorickshaw that was stuck in a traffic jam on a narrow road in Madhya Pradesh and scattered the money all over a busy street. People rushed to grab what they could.

    The monkey came inside the rickshaw and snatched the towel from the hands of the passenger before climbing a tree. The animal began to shake the towel, after which the banknotes began to rain down the street.

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    The money’s owner managed to get his hands on INR56,000 (Rs128,666), as the remaining amount could not be recovered after many people went off with the money.

    The police are now facing problems in tracing one of the suspects as there was no CCTV cameras in the area.

    The police said that the monkey often invades vehicles as many people provide food to them.

    Police have not registered a robbery case due to lack of evidence against anyone.

  • Man finds monkey’s selfies after finding lost phone in jungle

    Man finds monkey’s selfies after finding lost phone in jungle

    A Malaysian man found monkey selfies and videos on his lost phone a day after finding it in the jungle behind his house.

    Zackrydz Rodzi, a student in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, woke up to find his mobile phone missing.

    Speaking to the BBC, Rodzi said he located his phone the following day after hearing it ring in a jungle area behind his house.

    There were a series of blurred photos of the monkey, trees in the phone’s gallery. 

    The monkey also recorded a video and tried to eat the device.

    Rodzi said he failed to find any trace of his phone until Sunday afternoon when his father noticed a monkey outside their house. He dialed his son’s number from his phone and heard a distant ringing in the jungle behind their back garden. He then found the phone under a palm tree, covered in mud.

    The gallery had a few pictures of a monkey, peering down the lens with bright green foliage and birds in the background.

    But it remained unclear exactly how the mobile went missing.

    “Unlike some parts of the world where monkeys live in or near urban areas, there is no history of monkeys stealing things from houses in the local neighbourhood”, said the student. He suspects the monkey may have entered the house through his brother’s open bedroom window.