Indonesians rule the world with selfie taking (that selfie stick trend got popping here), and its animals are no different.
A captivating selfie of a female crested macaque in North Sulawesi, Indonesia has made a list circulating of the “Most Amazing Science Images of 2014.”
Though the image was actually captured back in 2011 (that monkey was so ahead of its time), the listicle’s author writes that the viral selfie made the cut for the 2014 best images because the “legal issues surrounding it were unmistakably 2014 in tone.”
The monkey was the one who picked up British nature photographer David Slater’s camera and snapped the shot, so Wikimedia claims the photo is “public domain” and refuses to remove the already viral pic. That monkey selfie “is in the public domain, because as the work of a non-human animal, it has no human author in whom copyright is vested,” says Wikimedia.
This pretty girl’s self-portrait remains on Wikimedia Commons to this dayHowever, Slater’s not down with that: “A monkey pressed the button,” he told the Telegraph, “but I did all the setting up.”
This selfie joins the ranks of other incredible images like a creative time-lapse of a snowflake, images of our galaxy’s magnetic field, and possibly the scariest thing ever (especially for those of us who live in mosquito-abundant climates like Bali): a real-life tornado of mosquitoes.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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