When animals attack cellphones

First it was that fish in England that swallowed cellphones. Now some actress we've never heard of (Elizabeth Regen) from some show we've never watched
(Whoopi, on NBC, though obviously we've heard of Whoopi), lost her cellphone at the Central Park Zoo yeterday when her daughter grabbed the phone and threw it into the monkey house. Regen wanted her phone back, but the zoo keepers refused to give it to her, because it had been, shall we say, defiled and was no longer safe for use by humans and had to be destroyed.