This cheeky monkey mugshot was taken by an endangered Celebes crested macaque using equipment owned by British photographer David Slater. After several days befriending a troop of macaques in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Slater set up a selfie-station to turn their curiosity to his own ends. “Once they started to touch the camera and play with the cable release,” he says, “I had to move closer to steady the tripod from being knocked over. It was when I was lying prostrate on the forest floor steadying the tripod that I heard the familiar sound of shots being fired. Looking up, I saw a delighted macaque pulling faces at its own reflection as the shutter was firing. It was utterly hilarious.” The monkey selfie made headlines around the world, and became the subject of an extended legal dispute after animal rights group Peta filed a lawsuit in 2015 requesting Naruto, the macaque, be recognised as copyright holder (the US court ruled in 2018 that the animal “lacked statutory standing to...
