‘King Kong’ monkey bashes seagull to death and eats it in wild video
Horrifying footage shows a monkey climb on to a pole at a zoo, grab a seagull out of the air and bash it to death. WARNING: Graphic
He’s a furious George.
A UK zoo monkey is drawing comparisons to King Kong after climbing a tall pole to swipe a seagull from the sky — which it then battered to death and devoured in front of stunned onlookers. A TikTok video of the brutal moment has amassed over 2 million views on TikTok since Sunday, Kennedy News reported.
“It was like watching the real King Kong,” Bec Adamson, 32, told Kennedy of the violent attack, which occurred while she was visiting the Chester Zoo in Cheshire with her family.
“We’d just been to see the rhinos, so we were walking across, then I saw all these seagulls circling and then this monkey caught one as it was flying past,” explained the hospitality worker, who was with her then-partner Jamie Stockall, 35, and five-year-old son Dominik Minshull at the time. “It was really clever.”
Adamson added, “I told Jamie and Dominik looked too, so I started filming. When I zoomed in I could see he was battering the f**k out of this seagull. I couldn’t believe I was catching it on video.
In the accompanying 45-second clip, the capuchin — a species native to the jungles of central and South America — can be seen perched atop a 7m pole slamming the hapless feather bag against it repeatedly as bystanders gasp in shock.
The moment evoked the iconic scene from “King Kong” (1933) where the titular gorilla smashes an aeroplane while astride the Empire State Building.
At one point, Furious George even appeared to “lick blood off its fingers” as the seagull went limp in its arms.
An appalled Adamson says that the bloodthirsty monkey then dropped the gull so it could clamber down the pole and rip out its “insides,” which it then dragged back to its cage to eat.
“I noticed he was licking his fingers. He was really enjoying his meal,” described the Northwich native, who said by that time, a crowd of 100 spectators had formed.
The fascination was amplified online with one TikTok commenter writing, “Brutal, yet so satisfying.”
“That monkey is living the dream! I’ve wanted to do that every time my chips were stolen,” gushed another, while one commenter described the scene as “finger-licking good.”
“What people don’t know is that this is on set at the next King Kong movie. Kong v Gullzilla,” quipped one jokester.
Interestingly, Adamson’s son was more curious than disturbed by the grisly spectacle.
“Dominik asked if David Attenborough was watching as well because we watch this sort of thing at home,” the mother mused, referring to the famed naturalist broadcaster. “He just thought it was amazing because he thought they were fighting.”
“It could have scarred him for life,” she added. “If I was his age, I’d have been terrified. I think I’m raising a psychopath.”
However, at the end of the day, Adamson said she wasn’t too worried as the “violent” scene is just “what happens in nature.”
Indeed, along with eating fruits and nuts, Capuchin monkeys are known to prey on birds, frogs, and even small mammals.
This article was originally published by the New York Post and reproduced with permission
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