The story of Punch, a young Japanese macaque monkey living at a zoo in Japan, has generated tremendous interest on social media and international news outlets. The young primate went viral after photos surfaced of him cuddling a stuffed animal almost as large as himself—an object he constantly uses for sleep and comfort. The scene touched thousands of people, especially when it was revealed that the animal was rejected by its mother shortly after birth.
Punch currently lives at the Ichikawa City Zoo, located east of Tokyo. His story quickly spread when visitors and zookeepers shared videos of the baby macaque walking around his enclosure with a toy. According to zookeepers, the stuffed animal quickly became a kind of “surrogate mother” for him.
As months passed, public interest continued. Now that Punch is seven months old, experts in animal behavior and primatology have offered new explanations for his situation, including why his mother didn’t raise him and why other monkeys sometimes behave violently towards him.
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