If a monkey snaps a selfie, does he own the rights to his own photograph?

If a monkey snaps a selfie, does he own the rights to his own photograph?

A few years ago in an Indonesian forest, a crested macaque monkey named Naruto picked up an unattended camera and took several photos of himself. The resulting monkey selfies have become the center of a debate concerning the overlap of intellectual property law and animal rights. The owner of the camera, photographer David J. Slater,…