This is the dramatic moment a monkey in India risked her life to rescue her baby which was balancing precariously on powerlines.

Footage shows the female monkey watching anxiously from the roof of a building in a village in Rajasthan as her baby struggles to maintain its balance on the powerline.

Other members of the troop come to watch the perilous situation of the young simian but none plucks up the courage to attempt a rescue.

Eventually, mum leaps onto the powerlines but struggles to keep her own balance and is forced to jump back to the building leaving her offspring on the wires.

But she's not done yet. She tries again and this time keeps her footing on the cables, scoops up her baby in her arms and leaps back to the safety of the roof.

The footage was filmed in the Gara village in Banswara district on May 14th.

This is the incredible moment an adult monkey risks its own life to save a young who was struggling to keep balance while hanging from overhead electric wires in northern India's Rajasthan.

The incident took place on May 14 in Gopinath ka Gara village of Banswara district.

Visual showed at least two adult monkeys sitting on the parapet of a building, watching a young simian struggle to keep balance while hanging from overhead electric wires.

In its effort to rescue the young, one of the monkeys jumps on the wire but fails in the first attempt.

Meanwhile, another monkey joins the duo.

Tensed about the baby's condition, the monkey makes another attempt and successfully manages to carry the young with it, thus saving the former's life.

Monkeys are highly intelligent creatures. They are also worshipped in India by followers of Hinduism, who believe these simian as descendants of Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god.