There was no monkeying about, the news was all bad.

This Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news while perched in a tree at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in southern India.

While digging into some lunch, the little Rhesus macaque appears to also devour the days news, which he takes in with varying degrees of alarm and contemplation.

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My shares! The Rhesus macaque risks falling out of the tree in shock at the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in southern India when he sees the alarming movements in the financial markets

My nest egg! The monkey rests his face against the paper, unsure what to do next

Branching out: The monkey brings the paper close, keen to absorb as much information as he can

The comical photographs were captured by software engineer Bhavani Gucha, 28, while on a photography trip.

Mr Gucha said visitors to the gardens often fed the monkeys fruit wrapped in newspaper, but he had never seen a monkey have such a 'funny reaction' to the news.

He said: 'Monkeys are definitely my favourite animal to photograph because of their facial expressions, they are such characters.'

Gucha, who grew up in Andhra Pradesh and now lives in Bangalore, India, spent around 90 minutes photographing the monkeys in the gardens, which are close to his home.

You don't say: The monkey is far more relaxed as he enjoys some lighter reads further back in the paper

New material: The monkey appears to have found some other correspondence to look over

He said: 'The monkeys are very much used to being around humans, as there are so many around and we feed them a lot.

'I was around five metres away when I took the pictures, and I was thrilled with how they came out.'