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'Monkey Business': California Primate Dials 911 From Zoo
A particularly inquisitive monkey called 911 and hung up on Saturday evening, puzzling local law enforcement in a small California town.
PASO ROBLES, CA — Deputies on the central coast of California were surprised to find out who was on the other end of a disconnected 911-call on Saturday evening — a monkey.
Dispatchers of the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office answered the 911 call that night and became concerned when the caller, who had hung up the phone, was not responding to text messages or a call back.
Deputies were dispatched to Zoo to You, near Paso Robles, but no one there said they had placed the call, according to the sheriff's office.
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"Then they all realized... it must have been Route the Capuchin monkey," officers wrote in a Facebook post.
Route had gotten ahold of the zoo's cell phone, which was in the facility's golf cart, used to travel around the 40-acre property.
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"We're told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons. And that's what Route did... just so happened it was in the right combination of numbers to call us.
"But you can't really blame her, after all monkey see, monkey do," officers wrote.
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