A pair of cheeky monkeys have gone bananas over a new Apple iPod - and broken the heart of the girl who lost it to them forever.
When Stormi-Lee Whitford's grandmother took her to Auckland Zoo, she had the perfect chance to test out the $300 iPod given to her as a combined Christmas and birthday present. But it took just a matter of seconds for the gadget to slip through the Te Kauwhata 10-year-old's fingers - and into the hands of a filching spider monkey.
Carol Whitford said her granddaughter was busy taking pictures of the monkeys on a landing above the enclosure when disaster struck.
![Shortly after this photo was taken Stormi-Lee lost her ipod.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/27Z4TXETTO3XJ4R7FLPGQJLHFI.jpg?auth=50e28b31628264fd37c964281663f8717f2b9c8c2896b434c1ec861296f0b7ab&width=16&height=18&quality=70&smart=true)
"'Grandma', she said. 'What's happened Stormi-Lee?' I answered. 'It slipped out of my hand'. She was devastated."