Malaysian man finds monkey selfies on his lost smartphone; shares video

Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian monkey made headlines this week after allegedly stealing a man's iPhone, snapping a few selfies on it and even taking a video.

Zackrydz Rodzi, 20, a computer science student who lives with his parents in the city of Batu Pahat, believed his phone had been stolen from his house after he woke up on Saturday and couldn't find it anywhere, he told Newsweek.

After searching for nearly an entire day, Rodzi considered trying to hire someone or make a police report to find the missing phone. But before he could do that, his father mentioned there was a monkey playing outside the family's house, and that maybe it had stolen the phone.

Something yang korang takkan jumpa setiap abad. Semalam pagi tido bangun bangun tengahari phone hilang. Cari cari satu rumah geledah sana sini semua takde then last last jumpa casing phone je tinggal bawah katil tapi phonenya takde. Sambung bawah. pic.twitter.com/0x54giujnY

— z (@Zackrydz) September 13, 2020

At first, Rodzi didn't believe his father, he said. But sure enough, Rodzi found his phone Sunday in the forest near his house "full of mud." When he unlocked it and opened his photo gallery, Rodzi "ran out of words," he told the Evening Standard.

"[I have] no idea how to describe it because one of the impossible things just happened," he told the Standard. "I shook and laughed so hard and quickly ran towards my parents to tell them."

Rodzi's camera roll contained several surprises, including a few dozen blurry images of the monkey itself and out-of-focus shots of trees, plants and the undergrowth. There was even a short video of what appeared to be the monkey attempting to bite the phone.

The images and videos showcase a variety of iPhone camera features, including slow motion, time lapse and portrait mode, Rodzi told Newsweek. It was not possible for Newsweek to verify how the content arrived on his phone.