Video: Baboons take selfies after getting hold of visitor’s phone at Emmen zoo
Shahra Bahloul (32) accidentally dropped her phone into the baboon enclosure during a visit to Wildlands zoo in Emmen last week. The hamadryas baboons took the device and made several videos, which have now gone viral on TikTok. “Unfortunately, my phone did not survive,” Bahloul told RTL Nieuws.
She visited Wildlands on Ascension Day with a friend. “I was standing at the monkey enclosure with the phone in my hand.” Someone jostled her, and the phone “flew right through the fences,” she said. “The phone was immediately surrounded by the baboons.”
Bahloul quickly sought out a zoo employee, who explained to her that they would try to get the device back, but if the baboons took it into their night enclosure, it would be lost.
Back at home, Bahloul checked her iCloud and made a remarkable discovery. The baboons had recorded seven videos, some lasting seconds, others lasting several minutes. “They filmed the ground, but also themselves. In one shot, the three of them are standing around the phone.”
Bahloul later got her phone back from Wildlands, but the device had been destroyed. She posted the videos on TikTok, where they went viral. “I think it is really funny, but I would have preferred my phone not to have fallen into the enclosure. I was also afraid that a monkey would eat a piece, you never know what will happen.”
