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 ...

On their Indonesian island, crested black macaques are hunted for meat, kept as pets, and threatened by a shrinking habitat.

The internet has a new favorite little guy. His name is Punch (or Punch-kun, as he's Japanese), a young macaque monkey living at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. Like pygmy hippo Moo Deng or fluffy ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seven month-old Punch, a macaque monkey who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sits with a stuffed orangutan toy at ...

Macaque monkeys in two separate Japanese prefectures have taken the primatology world by storm after they were spotted attempting to mate with Sika deer. The phenomenon, originally observed in a ...

This photo taken on February 19, 2026 shows a seven month-old male macaque monkey named Punch, who was abandoned by his mother shortly after birth, sitting with a stuffed orangutan toy at Ichikawa ...

People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows that these monkeys are regularly eating dirt—likely as a way to soothe ...

Japanese macaques, colloquially referred to as snow monkeys, famously soak in steaming hot springs during winter. It's easy to see that this helps them stay warm in cold temperatures, but a team of ...

Due to an unfortunate situation with a happy ending, Punch the baby macaque monkey has gone viral online. Punch is a baby monkey who lives at the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan and was abandoned by his ...