This is the hilarious moment that a monkey runs into a Chinese classroom and steals a student’s carton of soy milk.

The monkey was part of a pack of three, who came down from the mountain in Xichang City in the south-eastern Chinese province of Sichuan in search of snacks on November 27th.

The person filming, identified as Peng, described how the monkey suddenly ran out and “snatched” his classmate’s soy milk.

Peng said that although everyone was shocked at the time, it is actually a common occurrence in the school as there are often monkeys running down the mountain.

Last year other students reported to Red Star News: “In our school, monkeys are tyrants on campus and we dare not provoke them.”

Another classmate said: “Others go to zoos to see monkeys. In our school, monkeys come to see us.”

Security personnel have reportedly stepped up patrols and reminded students not to feed or provoke the monkeys.

Another report of monkeying around came from the Chinese city of Guiyang when a cheeky primate broke into a woman’s apartment on the 39th floor and “smashed and looted” the kitchen, balcony and other areas of her home.

At one point, she said she quickly closed the balcony door trapping it outside and that the monkey started making fierce faces at the window before it climbed down a pipe with one of her dog’s toys.