Punch, the monkey, is social media’s latest viral sensation because he has a strange friend. The Japanese macaque was born at Ichikawa City Zoo in 2025, but his story is quite heartbreaking, which is ...

A viral clip of a Japanese macaque named Punch, rejected by his mother and clinging to a plush toy, has drawn global attention to a question scientists first tested seven decades ago: why do young ...

You’ll want to know why a tiny macaque clutching a stuffed orangutan has sent people online into a frenzy. Punch‑kun was abandoned at birth, raised by zookeepers, and now carries his plush companion ...

A single clip of a baby monkey grooming a stuffed toy — picking imaginary lice off a plush orangutan like it was alive — hit 2.2 million views and 153,000 likes in under 24 hours this week. Jon ...

A baby Japanese macaque named Punch, who previously became an Internet celebrity because of his history of loneliness, began ...

The zoo noted that 'a few high-ranking macaques have demonstrated aggression more frequently' and were removed from the ...

Despite signs of progress, Punch still spends stretches of time alone and occasionally faces rough play from older monkeys.

A baby monkey named Punch is struggling to find acceptance in his macaque enclosure in a Japanese zoo, and endeared social media users are fully on his side. Punch, who was abandoned by his mother ...

Researchers have found that the size of the amygdala—a region of the brain involved in processing emotions—could be linked to social tolerance in macaque monkeys. Their research, published today in ...