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A meerkat used a Canon EOS 650 film-based SLR to take a family portrait when a photographer left his kit inside an enclosure at Longleat Safari Park, according to today’s Times<\/i> newspaper. <\/p>\n

One thing is puzzling, however. The report states that the pictures were stored on the camera’s ‘digital memory card’. <\/p>\n

For the full story, plus pictures, click on the full Amateur Photographer story here<\/a> for details of how the ‘hoax’ was uncovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A meerkat used a Canon EOS 650 film-based SLR to take a family portrait when a photographer left his kit inside an enclosure at Longleat Safari Park, according to several press reports.
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