A shocking video was captured of a zoo monkey plucking a seagull from the sky then beating it to death.
A UK zoo monkey is being compared to King Kong after climbing a tall pole to snatch a seagull from the sky then bashing it to death and devouring it in front of astonished onlookers. A TikTok video of the horrifying attack has been viewed over 2 million times since Sunday.
“It was like watching the real King Kong,” Bec Adamson, 32, said about the violent attack while visiting the Chester Zoo in Cheshire with her family.
“We’d just been to see the rhinos, so we were walking across, then I saw all these seagulls circling and then this monkey caught one as it was flying past,” recounted a hospitality worker, who was with her partner Jamie Stockall, 35, and five-year-old son Dominik Minshull. “It was really clever.”
Adamson added, “I told Jamie and Dominik looked too, so I started filming. When I zoomed in I could see he was battering the f**k out of this seagull. I couldn’t believe I was catching it on video.
In the 45-second clip, the capuchin monkey, a species native to the jungles of central and South America, can be seen atop a pole smashing the seagull against the pole as stunned onlookers watched.
It looked reminiscent of a scene from “King Kong” (1933) where the gorilla smashes an airplane while perched on the Empire State Building.
At one point, the savage animal appeared to lick the blood from its fingers as the bird gave in.
Eventually, the beast let go of the limp seagull and climbed down, dragged the bird back to his cage, ripped it apart, devoured it.
