Always thought this was BS and Wikipedia confirms my assumption:
In 2002, lecturers and students from the University of Plymouth MediaLab Arts course used a £2,000 grant from the Arts Council to study the literary output of real monkeys. They left a computer keyboard in the enclosure of six Celebes crested macaques in Paignton Zoo in Devon, England from May 1 to June 22, with a radio link to broadcast the results on a website.
Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five total pages largely consisting of the letter “S”, the lead male began striking the keyboard with a stone, and other monkeys followed by urinating and defecating on the machine.
Always thought this was BS and Wikipedia confirms my assumption:
They gave monkeys a computer. Instead of Shakespeare, the result was Twitter.
A rose by any other name…
Those monkeys wrote a better love story than Twilight
Too few monkeys