Footage has emerged from China of a troop of monkeys scrapping with the owner in the middle of a street, in what may or may not be some kind of trained performance.

The video, filmed in in Anyang, Henan Province on April 2, initially shows a monkey slapping the man to the ground, prompting him to threaten the animal with a knife.

He then puts the blade down and one of the larger primates picks it up but doesn't hurt the man.

Eventually, the group of monkeys attack him together.