Clutching a monkey plushie, Eliete Ikeda screamed "Punch!" as she caught sight of the underdog baby macaque still drawing crowds of photo-hungry visitors to a Japanese zoo weeks after he ...
An orphaned baby monkey whose attachment to a stuffed toy captured hearts around the world is slowly finding acceptance among his own kind — offering a hopeful update to a story that has drawn ...
Over the past few weeks, a baby macaque at Japan’s Ichikawa City Zoo named Punch has taken the internet by storm. Viral ...
In the wild, infant Japanese monkeys will nurse for up to two years. When they are orphaned, they can survive at Punch’s age — especially if they are adopted, or even just befriended, by others. When ...
Ichikawa City Zoo staff utilized a specific replacement object to satisfy the instinctual clinging requirement. Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has ...
#1: Baby Monkeys Can Be Different Colors Than Their Parents Some baby monkeys have different color hair than their parents. A number of langur species, including silvered leaf langurs, François’ ...