WATCH out for those monkeys.

That was the advice given to me by at least a dozen people when I mentioned I was flying to Gibraltar.

A quick scroll on social media seemed to paint a fairly damning picture of these critters' mischievous antics.

But I thought to myself, how bad can they really be - surely they only pounce when provoked.

So when I found myself under Gibraltar's stunning rays of sunshine, I had to find out for myself.

The British territory is famed for its cable cars that run up The Rock to take those who so desire - and thousands do every year - to see the Barbary macaques.

As luck would have it, apparent strong winds had forced it to close and so it was the bus and good old legs for us on our mission to meet the monkeys.

These pesky primates have called Gibraltar hom

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