--- description: Wild monkeys in Florida can be seen on video chasing away and hissing at a group of people, including a young boy who captured the incident. title: ‘This Is Insane.’ Video Shows Wild Monkeys Chasing Away Family in Florida image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [animals](/tag/animals/) ## animals Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # ‘This Is Insane.’ Video Shows Wild Monkeys Chasing Away Family in Florida  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2017 7:27 PM CUT  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2017 7:27 PM CUT Wild monkeys in Florida can be seen on [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FKrZ8fzpr1c&feature=youtu.be "undefined") chasing away and hissing at a group of people, including a young boy who gleefully captured the encounter as he fled. The animals were spotted at Silver Springs State Park in Ocala, Fla., according to the footage, which was posted on YouTube on Sunday. Rhesus macaques have lived in the state park for more than 75 years, the [Orlando _Sentinel_](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-silver-springs-macaques-could-spread-20151218-story.html "undefined") has previously reported. The young boy screams and laughs as he sees the monkeys growling, hissing and jumping back and forth on wooden perches. “The monkeys are attacking!” he says. “Run! Run!” However, the monkeys do not appear to make contact with the human visitors throughout the video. The animals can be heard making threatening noises and do appear to chase away the people who had apparently come too close. It’s unclear what prompted the change in behavior among the monkeys, which are “exceptionally adapted to coexisting with humans” in both rural and urban areas, according to the [National Primate Research Center](http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/rhesus%5Fmacaque "undefined") at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The short and edited video cuts out what may have provoked the pack. Florida State Parks did not immediately return a request for comment. “This is the craziest thing that’s ever happened to me,” the boy says. “This is insane.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4844055/monkey-attack-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4844055/monkey-attack-florida/"},"headline":"‘This Is Insane.’ Video Shows Wild Monkeys Chasing Away Family in Florida","datePublished":"2017-07-03T19:27:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T11:06:08.444Z","description":"Wild monkeys in Florida can be seen on video chasing away and hissing at a group of people","url":"https://time.com/4844055/monkey-attack-florida/","keywords":["animals","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/animals/","name":"animals"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4844055/monkey-attack-florida/","name":"‘This Is Insane.’ Video Shows Wild Monkeys Chasing Away Family in Florida"}}]}] ```