Getting a call from an unknown is one of the most irritating things in 2022. Why is anyone you don't know calling you? Even worse, is if you get to your phone and find you missed a call from an unknown number. Now you there trying to figure who it might have been, what they wanted and why their number is hidden.  The only thing that could probably be worse than an unknown missed call, would be receiving a call from a monkey.

According to ladbible, one of the residents of a local zoo in California made an emergency 911 call, sending the Sheriff's office rushing to the zoo, only to be met by a bizarre caller.   Zookeepers, along with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office, now believe it was a cheeky monkey named Route that placed the call. Police dispatchers received a call on June 13, which eventually disconnected.

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Dispatchers tried to call and text the number back, but received no response, which led to dispatchers sending a squad car to investigate the call. Police found themselves at Zoo to You, a zoo in Paso Robles, facing down a group of very confused zookeepers who denied calling them.

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The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office shared an update of the incident on social media to explain the slightly odd turn of events that followed. "Deputies were sent to investigate," the social media post reads.

"The address took them to the offices of Zoo to You near Paso Robles. No one there had placed the call."

The post added: "Was someone trying to make us look like a monkey's uncle? [But] then they all realised... it must have been Route the capuchin monkey."

 Yes, you read that correctly.

After a bit of head-scratching, police and zookeepers eventually came to the realisation that the zoo’s Capuchin monkey, named Route, had got her hot little hands on a mobile phone.

We have a couple of questions; How did the monkey get a hold of the phone? How did she know to dial 911? Did anyone give her a banana for being extra smart and checky? One question we can answer is though, if this had happened in South Africa, the police might still only be on the way, 3 days later. Read the full story here.