The Dart & the Monkey!

A park ranger shoots a monkey hanging from a branch of a tree with a tranquilizing dart.
The ranger aims directly at the monkey, not realizing that the dart will follow a parabolic
path and thus fall below the monkey. The monkey, however, sees the dart leave the gun
and lets go of the branch to avoid being hit. Will the monkey be hit anyway? Does the
velocity of the dart affect your answer, assuming it is great enough to travel the horizontal
distance to the tree before hitting the ground?