CAMPUS

Monkeys on Your Back, Literally

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

Rhesus macaques share about 93 percent of their genomic sequence with humans and are thus popular with medical researchers.

Not so at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, in New Delhi, where a troop of 80 to 100 of the monkeys have terrorized the campus for several years, entering waiting rooms, biting people, and grabbing food from patients and visitors.

The article goes on to explain how the university has tried several novel methods of getting rid of said monkeys, including hiring a “monkey catcher” and bringing in another species of monkey that the Rhesus fear*. But nothing has proved effective. Crafty little devils, those monkeys.

*One is reminded of the old lady who swallowed the fly.