This is the horrifying moment a monkey scaled a 20ft-tall pole to snatch a passing gull out of the sky - before smashing it to death against its perch and eating it. Bec Adamson was enjoying a 'lovely day out' at Chester Zoo, Cheshire, with her son last Saturday when she says she saw a balancing monkey snatch a large bird as it flew past.
The 32-year-old began filming and captured the fearsome monkey holding its unlikely prey by the head and repeatedly slamming it against the side of his enclosure's thin pole. It reminded her of the iconic King Kong scene where the giant primate hangs from the Empire State Building and rips planes from the sky to destroy them.
The monkey even appears to 'lick blood off its fingers' as the outstretched bird becomes limp following the fatal five-minute battering.
Startled Bec, who was also with former partner Jamie Stockall, 35, says the zoo animal then dropped the gull, so it quickly climbed down to grab the 'insides' from the carcass and take it away to eat.
