This was the bizarre moment a monkey snatched a cobra from a snake charmer and fled.

The snake charmer desperately pursued the monkey to get his snake back.

The incident occurred in Vrinadavan, Uttar Pradesh, India on October 26.

The footage shows the snake charmer squatting outside the well-known Barbanki temple, getting ready to put up a show.

As he pulls out a snake from a bamboo basket, an Indian rhesus monkey gets down from a building, snatches the snake and runs.

Shocked and desperate to get his snake back – a source of his livelihood – the snake charmer chases the monkey.

He climbs a building and misses a serious injury after nearly slipping off it.

Eyewitnesses said he failed to catch the monkey and came back empty-handed.

“Monkeys snatch food and things from people frequently. But this is the first time a monkey has snatched a snake probably thinking it was food,” said a local resident Avatans Kumar, 23.

In a bizarre incident, a monkey snatched a cobra from a snake charmer and fled.

The snake charmer desperately pursued the monkey to get his snake back.

The incident occurred in Vrinadavan, Uttar Pradesh, India on October 26.

The footage shows the snake charmer squatting outside the well-known Barbanki temple, getting ready to put up a show.

As he pulls out a snake from a bamboo basket, an Indian rhesus monkey gets down from a building. Sneaking up on him from behind, it snatches the snakes and runs.

Shocked and desperate to get his snake back – a source of his livelihood – the snake charmer pursues the monkey.

He climbs a building and even misses a serious injury after nearly slipping off it.

Eyewitnesses said he failed to catch the monkey and came back empty handed.

“We have a serious monkey problem here. They snatch food and things from people frequently. But this is the first time a monkey has carried away a snake probably thinking it was food,” said a local resident Avatans Kumar, 23.