I was hiking section 6 of the Wilson trail today around 5pm (from memory it was after marker 64 but before 65) and it was crawling with filthy, territorial feral monkeys. They were hanging out on the path in packs, straggly females with babies and mean-looking males guarding them, half of whom seemed to be missing eyes.
I got around a few sets despite hisses and being charged at by the meaner ones, and then found myself trapped between two particularly large, nasty males who didn't want to let me go either forwards or backwards and were looking pretty unimpressed at my presence and aggressive, and looked like they were going to charge if I approached them.
Well I broke the rules and got the last of my seeds out and scattered them around judiciously, unsurprisingly legions more appeared from either side and above but I was at least able to beat an escape and as luck would have it I was just about at the end of that part of the trail so ran off across a bridge unscathed although with a large crowd of monkeys following for more.
I had been told that monkeys were only aggressive when after food but that just isn't true - when they are doing their 5pm promenade with the ladies and baby monkeys in the late afternoon sun they become super-aggressive when approached on the narrow paths of the trails. These vermin need to be culled, they are diseased and it's only a matter of time until someone is seriously hurt.
Monkey brain soup for me tonight.