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.
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.