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Soumyo Mukherjee

BMC

Monkeys have suddenly become the talking point at. And it has nothing to do with the engineering brains drawing inspiration from the apes doing gravity-defying stunts.The students at the 550-acrecampus say troops of monkeys have been raiding their hostels for the past few days. On Monday, they took to theto vent their frustration. The issue of unwanted guests is particularly serious at hostel nos. 3, 5, 7 and 9. The raiders “change the orientation" of a room if one forgets to lock it, they wrote on the FB page of Insight, IIT-B's in-house magazine.“Incidents of monkeys playing with electronic stuff and trying to find something to eat have been recorded.Students also found monkeys sleeping on their beds," reads the post.Last week, some hostel inmates tried to shoo away a troop, but the idea backfired. “The monkeys charged at one of us. We're all very scared," said a second year student.The students have also ridiculed temporary measures like `don't feed the monkeys' and `bursting crackers' suggested by the institute. “Why anyone would imagine they feed monkeys at 8.30 am, when they are rushing to classes, without having breakfast themselves," questioned the post., dean of student affairs, said a complaint from the students has been forwarded to theand the forest department.