Police in California were pulled into some monkey business over the weekend when a Capuchin monkey at a zoo apparently dialed 911 — and hung up the phone.

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office believes it was a little monkey who placed a call to police Saturday night that eventually disconnected.

Police dispatchers tried to call and text the number back to no avail. So when deputies were sent out to investigate the call, they wound up at Zoo to You, a zoo in Paso Robles.

In an even more confusing turn, deputies then discovered that no one there had called 911.

They eventually concluded that the zoo’s Capuchin monkey — named Route — had apparently picked up the zoo’s cell phone that was left abandoned in a golf cart. San Luis Obispo is a coastal California city about 230 miles south of San Francisco and 200 miles north of Los Angeles.

According to officials the golf cart had been left unattended amid the zoo’s 40 acres of land, and the curious little monkey got her hands on it.

‘We’re told Capuchin monkeys are very inquisitive and will grab anything and everything and just start pushing buttons,’ the sheriff’s office said.

‘And that’s what Route did…just so happened it was in the right combination of numbers to call us.’

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office shared several snap shots of Route to their Facebook page, joking that officers with the department had seen their ‘fair share of “monkey business,” but nothing quite like this.’

The sheriff’s office said: ‘As you can tell from these photos, Route is a little embarrassed by the whole thing. But you can’t really blame her, after all monkey see, monkey do.’

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