This is the moment a clever chimp picks up a shoe that was dropped by a child being carried by its dad and throws it back up to its owner.

The video shows a chimpanzee at the Xixiakou Zoo in Weihai, a prefecture-level city and major seaport city in Shandong, China.

The chimpanzee initially has the shoe in its mouth, but after deciding that it is not something that can be eaten, and on the instructions of a zookeeper, the clever chimp then throws the shoe back into the crowd.

Local media reported that when the parents saw the chimp munching down on the shoe, they called to a keeper who was nearby, and when the keeper shouted at the chimp, it instantly responded and threw the shoe back.

A spokesman for the Xixiakou Zoo said that the chimp named Dongdong was very clever and quick to react to instructions from its keeper.