This was the bizarre moment a monkey snatched a cobra from a snake charmer and fled. <br /><br />The snake charmer desperately pursued the monkey to get his snake back. <br /><br />The incident occurred in Vrinadavan, Uttar Pradesh, India on October 26.<br /><br />The footage shows the snake charmer squatting outside the well-known Barbanki temple, getting ready to put up a show.<br /><br />As he pulls out a snake from a bamboo basket, an Indian rhesus monkey gets down from a building, snatches the snake and runs.<br /><br />Shocked and desperate to get his snake back – a source of his livelihood – the snake charmer chases the monkey. <br /><br />He climbs a building and misses a serious injury after nearly slipping off it.<br /><br />Eyewitnesses said he failed to catch the monkey and came back empty-handed.<br /><br />“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.
