WATCH: Monkey attempts to escape from zoo by breaking glass enclosure with rock

Interestingly, this monkey also 'knows how to use tools to break walnuts'

A monkey at China zoo was filmed shattering the glass wall of its enclosure after repeatedly striking it with a sharp stone.

According to Metro, visitors gasped as they watched the Colombian white-faced capuchin hold the rock with both hands and smash it down onto the glass. As the capuchin strikes the display wall, the entire glass pane suddenly cracks.

The video made rounds on social media where monkey skitters away as the glass pane cracks and runs in the opposite direction.

"The monkey scared itself away, but it came back to take another look and even touched it. This monkey is unlike other monkeys. This one knows how to use tools to break walnuts," Metro quoted zoo staff member, Tian Shuliao, as saying in local media.

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“When we feed walnuts to other monkeys, they only know to bite it. But it had never hit the glass before though. This is the first time,” he said, adding, “It’ is a toughened glass, so it would never have got out. After it happened, we picked up all the rocks and took away all its weapons.”

No guests were injured as a result of the incident and the monkey also stayed unharmed, zoo officials said.


Video courtesy:  South China Morning Post

The story originally appeared on Metro