Stop monkeying around! Macaque is amazed by zoo visitor’s magic trick in hilarious footage
- The primate appears to enjoy a private magic show from a visitor to Kyoto zoo
- After showing the red-faced macaque a tantalising fruit, he makes it disappear
- With its jaw slack and its eyes wide, the animal seems to be amazed by the trick
This is the moment a monkey at a Japanese zoo was left gobsmacked by a magic trick.
Footage shows Kosei, a visitor at the zoo in Kyoto, using sleight-of-hand to make a piece of fruit disappear in front of the macaque’s eyes.
And the monkey’s hilarious facial expressions as he reacts prompted Kosei to declare: ‘I fell in love with this monkey.’
His video starts with Kosei holding out the slice of yellow fruit to tease the primate who reaches a paw towards it through the wire mesh of its enclosure.
The monkey is eyeing the fruit longingly when the tourist suddenly taps his palm with this other hand, then points a finger and makes it ‘disappear’.
The monkey starts and opens its mouth and eyes wide, looking just like amazed human.
A red-faced macaque at a zoo in Kyoto, Japan, had an adorable reaction when shown a magic trick by a visitor, who tantalised it with a piece of fruit before making it ‘disappear’
Kosei added: ‘He was like a child who was happy to see a magic trick. His reaction made me so happy.’
Macaques can also be seen at Japan’s Jigokudani Monkey Park in Yamanouchi.
An Australian travel photographer captured footage of the ‘snow monkeys’ bathing in hot springs last week.
In the heart-warming footage, an inquisitive baby monkey gets close to one of the tourists and taps their knee, gazing up at them.
The others cleaning each other in the water seem unfazed as swarms of tourists gather round the springs to take pictures and footage of them.
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