This is a nail-biting moment when a man catches a wild monkey that has bitten a student at an Indonesian elementary school.

In footage filmed yesterday (January 11) at an elementary school in Agam district, West Sumatra, shows a man from the animal rescue Bukittinggi Reptile Animal Community (B-Reptanic) call to catch a monkey in the school field.

The wild ape, a type of long-tailed monkey, is fed a piece of bread which is then carried by the monkey to eat to the school fence.

Animal rescuer were seen several times trying to catch the monkey carefully. The monkey was finally caught empty-handed when the monkey was off guard because he was engrossed in eating bread.

Previously it was reported that the monkey, thought to have come from the forest in the Ngarai Sianok area, had attacked a grade 1 student.

"This monkey bit the hand of a grade 1 student until it got a small wound last Saturday. In recent times, the monkey has often been in elementary schools and made students afraid," said Eka, a teacher at SD Negeri 14 Lambah.

After he was caught, the monkey taken to be treated as his body showed wounds allegedly from a fight with another monkey.

B-Reptanic plans to release the monkey far from the settlement so that he does not return to school.