Monkey flies a KITE from a rooftop in front of stunned onlookers in India
- The monkey sat on a roof in India and pulled the string of the kite and caught it
- Twitter uses pointed out it was likely he grabbed a cut off string of a kite
- Twitter user Susanta Nanda said evolution was ‘happening fast due to lockdown’
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This video shows the moment a monkey appears to be flying a Kite in India as millions of people stay indoors to contain the coronavirus spread.
The monkey sits on the roof of a white building and pulls the string of the kite in until he catches it.
It was shared on Facebook by Akansha2706. Indian Forest Services officer Susanta Nanda, in Odisha, also shared the video on Twitter on April 16.
The video shows a monkey in India sitting on the roof of a white building. It appears he’s flying a kite as he reels it in
He said: ‘Evolution happening fast due to lockdown.
‘Monkey flying a kite. Yes it’s a monkey for sure.’
One Twitter user attributed the monkey’s new skills to lockdown. They said: ‘It’s seeing a learning. Due to presence of many people it just was not able to practice its acquired skills.
‘Lockdown has just given him some precious time to do so.’
People watching the monkey cheer as he brings the kite closer and closer and eventually catches it.
A second Twitter user said: ‘Superb video! In all probability, it might have caught hold of a cut string and pulling it in, but definitely a rare catch!’
Twitter users said the monkey had likely grabbed a cut string and pulled it in. Others said it was still clever he knew how to reel it in as the monkey grabbed hold of the kite
The monkey holds the kite as he continues to sit on the roof top and those watching below cheer
Another said: ‘The monkey just got hold of a string of a kite that was cut off during some kite fight, that’s it.’
Someone else pointed out that although it might have grabbed a cut off string, it was still clever that it knew how to do so.
They said: ‘But that just a monkey, how does that fellow know what to do with that string to get the kite down and that too very proficiently.’
Others said the monkey was flying a kite better than they ever could and that they couldn’t imagine a monkey flying a kite.